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SAA 10 149. Description of a Lunar Eclipse (ABL 1444) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning lost) (1) [May] N[abû and Marduk bless] the king, [my lord]! (3) A lunar eclipse took place on the 14th of Sivan (III), [during] the morning watch. It started in the south (of the moon) and cleared up in the south. Its right side was eclipsed. (r 1) It was eclipsed in the area of the constellation Scorpius. The shoulder of the constellation Panther was culminating. An eclipse of two fingers (magnitude) took place.
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334911/
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Transliteration
⸢d⸣[AG u dAMAR.UTU] / a-na LUGAL [EN-ia lik-ru-bu] / ina ITI*.SIG₄ [UD] ⸢14*-KAM*⸣ / 30 AN.MI* [ina] EN*.NUN—UD.ZAL / i-sa-kan / ina IM.U₁₈*.LU i-sa*-kan / ina IM.U₁₈*.LU ú-zak-ki / ina ZAG-šú a-dir / ina KI MUL.GÍR.TAB a-dir / MUL.ku-ma-ru / ša MUL.UD.KA.DU₈.A / ziq-pu / 02 ŠU.SI AN.MI / <$x x$> i-sa-kan
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334911.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334911). source
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/P334911/.
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