Position in chronology
SAA 08 480. Full Moon on 14th Day, Scorpius in Lunar Halo (RMA 143) [planetary, lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If] on the 14th day the moon and sun [are s]een together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably. (4) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding; the foundation of the king's throne will become stable. (7) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Scorpius stands in it: entu-priestesses will be made pregnant; men, variant: lions, will begin to rage and block the road. (r 2) From Nabû-ahhe-iddin.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1] UD 14-KÁM d30 u dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš [IGI]-MEŠ / KA GI.NA ŠÀ-bi KUR DÙG-ab / DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI ana SIG₅-tim i-ḫa-as-sa-su / 1 30 u dUTU šu-ta-tu-ú / LUGAL KUR uz-nu ú-rap-pa-áš / LUGAL SUḪUŠ GIŠ.GU.<ZA>-šú i-ka-nu / 1 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.GÍR.TAB ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / NIN.DINGIR.RA-MEŠ uš-ta-ḫa-a / LÚ.NITA-MEŠ KI.MIN UR.MAḪ-MEŠ / in-nam-da-ru-ma A.RÁ KUD-MEŠ / šá mdAG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—SUM.NA
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 P237455.
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/P237455/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237455/.
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