Position in chronology
SAA 08 137. Full Moon on 15th Day (ABL 0826) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) We kept watch on the 13th and the 14th day; on the 15th day the moon and sun saw each other. May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel and Nabû bless the king my lord! (r 1) From Nabû'a of Assur.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
UD 13-KAM UD 14-KAM / ma-ṣar-tu ni-ta-ṣar / UD 15-KAM d30 dšá-maš / a-ḫe-iš e-tam-ru / daš-šur dšá-maš dEN dAG / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu / ša mna-bu-u-a / ša URU.ŠÀ—URU
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 P334579.
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/P334579/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P334579/.
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