Position in chronology
SAA 10 145. 30th Day Turned ‘Long’ (CT 53 045) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning lost) (1) [May Nabû and Marduk bles]s [the king], my lo[rd]! (3) They watched the moon; the clouds were dense, and the moon was not seen. The 30th day became 'long.'
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia / [lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ / [UD 30-KÁM] EN.NUN / [ša] DINGIR i-ta-ṣa-ru / ⸢IM⸣.DIRI dan-nat / ⸢DINGIR⸣ la-a na-mur / ⸢UD⸣ 30-⸢KÁM⸣ / ⸢e⸣-ti-ri-ik
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313460.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313460). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313460/.
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