SAA 10 148. Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunrise (ABL 0470) [from astrologers]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334323

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 10

High confidence

(1) May [Nabû and Marduk] bless the k[ing]! (3) A certain Akkullanu has written: "The sun made an eclipse of two fingers at the sunrise. There is no apotropaic ritual against it, it is not like a lunar eclipse. If you say, I'll write down the relevant interpretation and send it to you."

State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[dAG u dAMAR.UTU] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ / lik-ru-bu / mak-kul-la-nu šu-u / is-sap-ra ma-a dUTU / ina na-pa-ḫi-šu ma-a / i-ba-áš-ši a-ki / 02 ŠU.SI AN.MI i-sa-kan / ma-a NAM.BÚR.BI-šu / la-áš-šu ma-a la / a-ki ša d30 / ma-a šum-ma ta-qab-bi / ma-a pi-šìr-šu / la-áš-ṭur / lu-še-bi-la-ka

Scholarly note

Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334323.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334323). 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/P334323/.

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