Position in chronology
SAA 08 517. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 124) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, and one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land, and the son will speak the truth with his father. — On the 14th day one god will be seen with the other. (4) If the moon and sun follow each other closely: the king of the land will widen his understanding; the foundation of the throne of the king of the land will become stable. (5) — On the 14th day one god will be seen with the other. (6) (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…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 20 ik-šu-dam-ma KI-šú it-ten-tu SI SI i-⸢dir⸣ / ina KUR NÍG.ZI GÁL-ma DUMU KI AD-šú kit-tú i-ta-mu / UD 14-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI-mar-ma / 1 30 u 20 it-ten-tu-ú LUGAL KUR PI.2 DAGAL-áš / LUGAL KUR SUḪUŠ AŠ.TE-šú GIN-an UD 14-KAM DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI-mar-ma / <1> UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ KA KUR GI.NA / ŠÀ KUR DÙG.GA DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI a-na SIG₅-tim / i-ḫas-sa-su ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi…
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 P336441.
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/P336441/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336441/.
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