Position in chronology
SAA 08 528. Full Moon on 15th Day (RMA 158) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon does not wait for the sun, but] sets: [raging of lion] and wo[lf]. (3) If on the 15th day [the moon and sun are seen] together: a strong enemy [will raise] his weapons against the land; the enemy will block my city gate. (r 1) The eunuch Ṭab-šar-..., the ... official of the groom(s) of ..., (and) Ahhešâ, the [...], have made the people flee whom the king my lord gave to me, and have taken away my property. I am sick, and I have no ...; may the king not abandon me, so that I do not have to die! [......].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237313/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 30 20 la ú-qí-ma] ⸢ir⸣-bi / [na-an-dur UR.MAḪ] u UR.BAR.[RA] / 1 UD 15-⸢KÁM⸣ [30 u 20] KI a-ḫa-meš [IGI-MEŠ] / LÚ.KÚR dan-nu [GIŠ].TUKUL-MEŠ-šú ana KUR [ÍL-a] / IGI KÁ.GAL-MU LÚ.KÚR DIB-⸢bat⸣ / mDÙG.GA—IM—d*x LÚ.SAG LÚ.GAL—pi-[qit-ti?] / šá LÚ.šu-šá-nu šá ⸢x x⸣ mŠEŠ-[MEŠ-šá]-a LÚ.⸢SAG⸣ [x x] / UN-MEŠ šá LUGAL be-la-a id-di-na-[an-ni] / ul-taḫ-liq nik-kas-si-i [o] / it-ta-šu-ú mar-ṣa-ku u LÚ.GAL—pi-[qit-ti-ia?] / ia-a-nu LUGAL la ú-maš-šar-an-ni [o?] / la a-ma-ti / [x x x] ⸢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 P237313.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237313). 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/P237313/.
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