Position in chronology
SAA 08 021. Full Moon on 14th Day (LAS 350) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) (As to) what the king, my lord wrote to me: 'The clouds were dense, how did you observe that the gods saw each other (in opposition)?' — (6) (the clouds) dispersed before daybreak; when he whom the king, my lord, knows revealed himself, we saw where the moon was standing. It amounts to an actual observation. (r 5) Now, does not the king, my lord, (indeed) hear that they saw each other on the 14th?
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336240/
Why it matters
Transliteration
ša LUGAL be-li iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a IM.DIRI dan-na-at / ma-a a-ke-e ta-mu-ra / ki-i DINGIR-MEŠ a-ḫe-iš / e-mu-ru-u-ni / ina pa-an na-ma-ri / iḫ-te-pe / ki-ma ša a-na LUGAL / be-li-ia ú-du-u-ni / ra-man-šú uk-tal-lim / 30 ina É i-za-zu-u-ni / né-ta-am-ra / am—mar ta-mar-ti-ni / i-ba-áš-ši / ú-ma-a LUGAL be-li / la i-šam-me-e / ki-i UD 14-KAM a-ḫe-iš / e-ma-ru-u-ni
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 P336240.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336240). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336240/.
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