Position in chronology
SAA 08 471. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 134) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely: there will be truth in the land, and the son will speak the truth with his father. (4) — On the 14th day one god is seen with the other. (5) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. (7) I.e. on the 14th day each month one god will be seen with the other. (r 1) If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: the speech of the land will become reliable; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; there will be joy among people; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. (r 7) From the lamentation priest Bel-šuma-iškun.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237850/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 30 dUTU ik-šu-dam-ma KI-šú it-ten-tu / ina KUR NÍG.ZI GÁL-ma DUMU KI AD-šú / kit-ti i-ta-mu / UD 14-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI-mar-ma / 1 30 ù 20 šu-ta-tu-ú / LUGAL KUR PI.2 DAGAL-áš / šá UD 14-KÁM ITI-us-su / DINGIR KI DINGIR in-nam-ma-ru / 1 UD 14-KÁM 30 ù 20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / KA KUR GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG.GA / DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI ana SIG₅-ti i-ḫas-sa-su / ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi UN-MEŠ GAR-an / bu-lim KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš / i-na EDIN i-rab-bi-ṣu / šá mdEN—MU—GAR-un LÚ.UŠ.KU
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 P237850.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237850). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237850/.
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