Position in chronology
SAA 08 493. Full Moon on 14th Day, Earthquake (RMA 265A) [lunar, weather]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If on the 14th day the moon and sun are se[en] together: speech of the land will become reliable; the land will become happy; the gods will rememb[er] Akkad favorably; joy among the troops; the king will become happy; the cattle of Akkad [will lie] in the st[eppe] undisturbed. (6) If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, (and) one horn [meets the other]: there will be truth in the land, the son [will speak] the truth with his father. (r 1) If the earth [quakes] all d[ay]: dispersal [of the land]. (r 3) If the earth quak[es] in Tammuz (IV): the ruler will be humili[ated] in the land of [his] enemy. (r 6) From Šapiku [of Borsippa].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-[MEŠ] / KA KUR GI.NA ŠÀ-bi KUR DÙG-ab / DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI ana SIG₅-tim i-ḫas-sa-[su] / ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi ERIM-ni ŠÀ-bi LUGAL DÙG-[ab] / MÁŠ.ANŠE KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina ⸢EDIN⸣ [NÁ-iṣ] / 1 30 20 KUR-ma it-ten-tu-ú SI [SI i-dir] / ina KUR kit-ti GÁL-[ši] / DUMU KI AD-šú kit-ti [i-ta-mi] / 1 KI.TIM ina ka-la ⸢UD⸣-[mu i-nu-uš] / BIR-aḫ [KUR] / 1 KI.TIM ina ITI.ŠU i-nu-[uš] / NUN ina KUR KÚR-[šú] / i-qal-[lil] / šá mšá-pi-ku [DUMU BÁR.SIPA.KI]
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 P237885.
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/P237885/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237885/.
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