Position in chronology
SAA 08 521. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136U) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon and sun are in balance: the land will become stable]; reliable speech [will be placed in the mouth of people]; the king of the land will make the thr[one last long]. (4) If a sun disk [stands] above the moon, var[iant: below the moon: the king of the land will stand] in his truth. (6) [If the moon and sun] are in oppositi[on: there will be] truth [in the land; the son will speak the truth with his father]. (8) [From] Nabû-[...].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P240319/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 30 u 20 šit-qu-lu KUR GI.NA] / at-mu-ú ki-[i-nu ina KA UN-MEŠ GAR] / LUGAL KUR GIŠ.GU.[ZA SUMUN-bar] / 1 AŠ.ME UGU-nu 30 ⸢KI⸣.[MIN KI.TA-nu 30 GUB-iz] / [LUGAL KUR i]-na kit-[ti-šú GUB-az] / [1 30 u 20] šu-ta-tu-[ú ina KUR] / kit-ti [GÁL-ši DUMU KI AD-šú kit-ti i-ta-mu] / [ša m]dAG—[x x x x]
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 P240319.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P240319). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P240319/.
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