Position in chronology
SAA 08 523. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136G) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen [together]: reliable speech; [the land will become happy]; the gods will remember Akkad fa[vorably]; the cattle [of Akkad] will lie in the steppe undisturbed; [there will be] joy among people; the king will become happy. (r 1) If the moon and sun are in opposit[ion]: the king of the land will wi[den] his understanding; the foundation of the king's throne will [become stable]. (r 4) If the moon and sun are in balance: reliable speech [will be placed] in the mouth of people. (r 7) From Nabû-[...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 [KI a-ḫa-meš] / IGI-MEŠ KA GI.NA [ŠÀ KUR DÙG] / DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI ana ⸢SIG₅⸣-[tim] / i-ḫa-sa-su bu-ul [KUR—URI.KI] / par-ga-niš ina EDIN i-⸢rab⸣-[bi-iṣ] / ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi UN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [GAR-an] / ŠÀ-bi LUGAL ⸢DÙG⸣-[ab] / 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-⸢tu⸣-[ú] / LUGAL KUR uz-nu ú-rap-[pa-áš] / LUGAL SUḪUŠ GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú ⸢GIN?⸣ / 1 30 u 20 šit-qul-⸢lu⸣ / at-mu-ú ki-i-⸢nu⸣ / ina pi-i UN-MEŠ [GAR] / šá mdAG—⸢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 P237314.
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/P237314/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237314/.
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