Position in chronology
SAA 08 112. Gemini and Perseus in Lunar Halo (MelGar 129) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) When I was sent to the Inner City, I made my observations, came back and report[ed] to the king: "The loin is not being offered to Aššur." (4) The king, my lord, got angry and said: "They should resume offering it." (5) Last year I wrote to the king, [my] lord, and told (them): "The king, my lord, gave me the order (personally)." Afterwards they wrote to the Go[ver]nor: "Write down the words of Akkull[anu] and those (with him); they are lyi[ng]." (9) [The k]ing, my lord, did not decide (the matter). [What is it] that the king says now? (r 1) [To]night the moon was surrounded by a halo,…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336164/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢ki⸣-i ina URU.ŠÀ—URU šap-ra-ku-ú-⸢ni⸣ / a-ta-mar at-ta-al-ka ina IGI LUGAL aq-ṭi-[bi] / mu-uk su-ú-nu a-na aš-⸢šur⸣ la i-qar-rib / LUGAL be-lí ir-tu-ub ma-a ⸢lu⸣-sa-ḫi-ru lu-qar-⸢ri-bu⸣ / ina šá-daq-diš a-na LUGAL EN-[ía] ⸢as⸣-sap-ra mu-uk LUGAL be-lí / ṭè-e-mu iš-sak-na-⸢an⸣-ni i—da-a-te a-na LÚ.⸢GAR?⸣.KUR / is-sap-ru-u-ni ma-a di-ib-bi ša mak-kul-⸢la⸣-[ni] / ⸢ù⸣ ša am-mu-u-ti ⸢šu*⸣-ṭur*…
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 P336164.
Attribution
Image: Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses — from Mesopotamia (Assyrian royal centres — Aššur, Nineveh, Kalḫu, Dur-Šarrukin) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336164). 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/P336164/.
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