Position in chronology
SAA 10 094. Full Moon on 15th Day; Reminder Concerning Offerings (ABL 0050) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Akkul[lanu]. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May I hear (about) the king, my lord's health and well-being in the answer to my letter. (10) Concerning the observation of the moon and the sun, [her]e is the relevant interpretation: (12) If on the 14th of Tebet (X) [the moon] is not seen [with the s]un: [there will be deaths], and the god will eat. (r 1) [If on the 15th day the moon and the sun are seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the country, and the enemy] will demolish [the city…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ía] / ARAD-ka mak-kul-[la-nu] / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL EN-ía lik-ru-bu / šul-mu ša LUGAL EN-ía / ù ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ-šú / ina ŠÀ gab-ri e-gír-ti-ía / la-áš-me / ina UGU ta-mar-ti 30 u 20 / [an-ni]-u pi-še-er-šú / [1 ina] ⸢ITI⸣.AB UD 14-KÁM / [d30 KI d]⸢UTU⸣ NU IGI-ir / [ÚŠ-MEŠ GAR-MEŠ] ⸢DINGIR* KÚ*⸣ / [KÁ.GAL-MEŠ LÚ.KÚR] ⸢i*⸣-na-⸢qar*⸣ / [UD…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334002.
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/P334002/..
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/P334002/.
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