Position in chronology
SAA 08 501. Full Moon on 14th Day, Saturn in Lunar Halo (RMA 136S) [planetary, lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) [If the moon and sun] are in opposition: the king [of the land will widen his understanding ...]. (2) I.e., on the 14th day the moon is seen [with the sun]. (4) [If a sun disk stands] above the moon, vari[ant: below the moon]: the foundation of the throne of the land's [king will be stable; the king of the land] will stand in his truth. (7) — On the 14th day [the sun stands] with the moon. (8) [If the sun] stands in the halo of the moon: [in all lands they will speak the truth, and the son [will speak the truth] with his father. (Break) (r 1) Kislev (IX), 14th day, year 1, Sargon king of Babylon.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30 u 20] šu-ta-tu-ú LUGAL [KUR uz-na DAGAL-áš] / [x x x] šá? UD 14-KÁM d*30? / [KI dUTU] IGI-mar-[ma] / [1 AŠ.ME] UGU 30 KI.[MIN KI.TA 30 GUB] / [LUGAL] KUR SUḪUŠ AŠ.TE-[šú GI.NA LUGAL KUR] / [ina] kit-ti-šú GUB-[az] / [dUTU] UD 14-KÁM KI 30 [GUB-ma] / [1 20 ina] TÙR 30 GUB [ina KUR DÙ.A.BI kit-tú i-ta-mu-u] / ù DUMU KI [AD-šú kit-ti i-ta-mi] / ⸢ITI.GAN?⸣ UD ⸢14⸣-KÁM MU 01-KÁM [o] / LUGAL—GI.NA LUGAL TIN.TIR.KI [o]
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 P240205.
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/P240205/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P240205/.
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