Position in chronology
SAA 08 109. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 138A) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. (3) If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land, and the son will speak the truth with his father. (7) If at the moon's appearance one horn [meets] the other: the flood will co[me]. (r 1) — On the 14th day it was seen together with the sun. (r 2) If on the 14th day the moon and sun are s[een] together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; there will be joy among people: the king will become [happy; the c]attle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. (r 7) From Akkullanu.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336458/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 d30 u dUTU šu-ta-tu-u / LUGAL KUR uz-na DAGAL-áš / 1 d30 dUTU ik-šu-dam-ma / it-ti-šú it-ten-tu₄ qar-nu qar-nu i-dir / ina KUR kit-tú GÁL-ši-ma DUMU KI AD-šú / kit-tum i-ta-am-me / 1 d30 ina IGI.LAL-šú qar-nu qar-nu [i-dir] / A.KAL DU-⸢kám⸣ / UD 14-KÁM KI dUTU IGI.LAL-⸢ma⸣ / 1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-[MEŠ] / KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.[KI] / ana MÍ.SIG₅ i-[ḫa]-sa-su ḫu-ud ŠÀ UN-MEŠ / GAR-an ŠÀ LUGAL [DÙG-ab bu]-ul KUR—⸢URI.KI⸣ / par-ga-niš ina ⸢EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ⸣ / ša mak-kul-la-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 P336458.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336458). 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/P336458/.
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