Position in chronology
SAA 08 525. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136R) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) (the gods) will remember (Akkad favorably); [the cattle of Akkad will lie] in the steppe [undisturbed; joy among the troops; the king will become happy]. (3) If the moon and sun are in opposition: [the king of the land will widen his understanding]. (4) If the moon and sun are in balan[ce: the land will become stable; reliable] speech [will be placed in the mouth of people]; the king [will make] the throne [last long]. (r 2) If at the moon's appearance [its horns are very dark]: disbanding of the fortified outposts, [retiring of the guards; there will be recon]ciliation and p[eace in the land]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢i-ḫa-as-sa-su⸣ [MÁŠ.ANŠE KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš] / ina EDIN ⸢i⸣-[rab-bi-iṣ x x x x x x x] / 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-[u LUGAL KUR uz-na DAGAL-áš] / 1 30 u 20 šit-qu-[lu KUR GI.NA] / at-mu-[ú ki-i-nu ina KA UN-MEŠ GAR-an] / LUGAL AŠ.TE [SUMUN-bar] / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú [SI-MEŠ-šú tur-ru-ka] / DU₈ bi-ra-a-[ti a-rad EN.NUN-MEŠ] / ⸢taš⸣-[mu]-ú u ⸢SILIM⸣-[mu ina KUR GÁL-ši]
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 P237667.
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/P237667/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237667/.
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