Position in chronology
SAA 10 105. Omens from Full Moon on 15th Day (CT 53 241) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning lost) (2) If the moon at its appearance [is ...]: the ruler [will have] no opponent. (4) The interpretation of the observation [of the moon and the sun] is [as follows]: (5) If the moon is not seen with the sun [on the 14th] of Tam[muz (IV)]: the king will be shut up [in his palace]. (7) If [the moon] and sun [are seen] together on the 15th day: a powerful enemy will raise [his] weapons [against the land] and destroy the sanctuaries [of the great gods]. (11) Furthermore, from [the month Nisan (I)], the beginning of the pr[evious] year, (when) the gods s[aw] each other, until the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ina [x x x x x x x] / 1 30 ina ⸢IGI.LAL-šú⸣ [x x x x x] / NUN GABA.RI NU [TUK x x x] / ša ⸢ta-mar-ti⸣ [30 u dUTU ki-i an-ni-i] / pi-šìr-šú : 1 30 ina ⸢ITI.ŠU⸣ [UD 14-KÁM] / KI dUTU NU IGI-ir LUGAL [ina É.GAL-šú] / ú-tas-sar : 1 UD 15-[KÁM d30] / u dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš [IGI.LAL-MEŠ] / LÚ.KÚR dan-nu GIŠ.TUKUL-[MEŠ-šú ana KUR] / i-na-áš-šá-a BARAG-MEŠ [DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ] / i-na-qar ù TAv ⸢ŠÀ⸣-[bi…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313656.
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/P313656/..
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/P313656/.
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