Position in chronology
SAA 08 140. Equinox on Nisan 6 (ABL 1428) [calendrical]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) On the 6th of Nisan (I) the day and the night were in balance: 6 'double-hours' of daylight, 6 'double-hours' of night. (r 1) May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the king, our lord!
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
UD 06-KÁM ša ITI.BARAG / UD-mu ù mu-ši / šit-qu-lu / 06 KASKAL.GÍD UD-mu / 06 KASKAL.GÍD mu-ši / dPA dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL BE-i-ni / lik-ru-bu
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 P334901.
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/P334901/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P334901/.
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