Position in chronology
SAA 08 459. Full Moon on 14th Day, Planet Sighted in Taurus [planetary, lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If on the 14th day the moon] is seen together with the sun: reliable speech; the land will become happy; [the cattle of Akkad] will lie in the steppe undisturbed. (3) [If at the moon's appearance one horn] meets the other: the flood will come. — On the 14th day (the moon) was seen together with the sun. (4) [If ...] comes close to Taurus: the people of the land will not speak the truth; [......] ... will seize the land [......] will come; [......] will [...] in the king's palace; in the beginning of the year ... [......] year there will be drought in the land ...... (8) — [......]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 UD 14-KÁM d30] ⸢KI⸣ dUTU IGI KA GI.NA ŠÀ-bi KUR DÙG-ab / [bu-lim KUR—URI.KI] par-ga-niš ina EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ / [1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI] ⸢SI⸣ i-di-ir A.KAL DU ina UD 14-KÁM KI dUTU IGI.LAL-ma / [1 MUL.x x x a-na] MUL.GUD.AN.NA TE UN-MEŠ KUR NU ⸢GI⸣.NA i-ta-ma-a / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ kit? ti KUR ⸢DIB⸣-bat ⸢x x x⸣ [x] ⸢x x⸣ DU-ku / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UR? ina É.GAL LUGAL iz-za?-⸢x x⸣ IŠ? ina ⸢IGI?⸣…
Scholarly note
Astrological report from a court scholar to an Assyrian king, edited by Hermann Hunger (SAA 8, 1992). Celestial and meteorological observation correlated with omens. ORACC text P237950.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237950/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237950/.
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