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SAA 10 075. The Moon Makes an Eclipse (ABL 0407) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! (Since) this is a gloomy day, I did not send the (introductory) blessing. (8) The eclipse swept from the east(ern quadrant) and settled over the entire west(ern quadrant of the moon). (12) The planets Jupiter and Venus were present during the eclipse, until it cleared. With the king, my lord, (all) is well; it is evil for the Westland. Tomorrow I shall send the king, my lord, a (full) report on (this) eclipse of the moon.
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334278/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia / UD-mu šá ta-di-ir-ti / šu-ú ka-ra-a-bu / la áš-pu-ra / AN.MI TAv IM.KUR.RA / is-sa-aḫ-aṭ / ina UGU IM.MAR.TU / gab-bu ik-ta-ra-ar / MUL.SAG.ME.GAR / MUL.dil-bat / ina AN.MI iz-za-zu / a-du ú-zak-ku-u-ni / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / DI-mu / lum*-nu / šá KUR.MAR.TU.KI / ina ši-a-ri / ú-il-tú / šá AN.MI 30 / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ú-še-ba-la
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334278.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, 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/P334278/..
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/P334278/.
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