Position in chronology
SAA 08 487. Eclipse of the Moon (RMA 274F) [eclipses]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) I wrote [to the k]ing my lord [as follows: "The moon] will make an eclipse." [Now] it will not pass by, it will occur. There is well-being for the king my lord in the occurrence of this eclipse: Iyyar (II) means Elam, the 14th day means Elam, the morning watch means [Elam]. Month, [day, watch, all of them] refer to E[lam. That it set] darkly refers to the ending of the dynasty of the West[land]. The West[land] is affected together with Elam; the dynasty of the Westland is ended. (7) From Nadinu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ia al-tap-ra / [um-ma d30] AN.MI GAR-an en-na / [a-du-ú] ul it-te-iq GAR-an / i-na šá-ka-an AN.MI an-ni-i / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia šul-mu / ITI.GUD KUR.NIM.MA.KI UD 14-KAM / KUR.NIM.MA.KI / EN.NUN—UD.ZAL.LI ⸢KUR?⸣.[NIM.MA].⸢KI⸣ / ITI [UD EN.NUN gab-bi-šú-nu] / ša KUR ⸢NIM⸣.[MA.KI-ma x x] / ad-riš [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ bi ma / TIL-it BALA [KUR]—MAR.TU.KI / [KUR] MAR.TU.KI it-ti NIM.KI la-pi-it / KUR—MAR.TU.KI BALA-šú qa-ti / ša mna-di-nu
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 P238060.
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/P238060/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238060/.
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