Position in chronology
SAA 08 162. Auspicious Days in Iyyar (LAS 332) [calendrical]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) The 10th day: at court, favorable. (2) The 12th day: in the street, favorable. (3) The 15th day: perfect seed. (4) The 16th day: joy of heart. (5) The 18th day: convert the cleaned (barley). (6) The 20th day: let him kill a snake: he will reach the first rank. (7) The 22nd day: at court, favorable; (good for) undertaking of an enterprise. (8) The 24th day: joy of heart. (r 1) The 26th day: (good) news. (r 2) The 27th day: completely favorable. (r 3) The 28th day: let him kill a snake. (r 4) The 30th day: a good omen. (r 5) From Adad-šumu-uṣur.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
UD 10-KÁM in di-nim ma-gir / UD 12-KÁM in SILA ma-gir / UD 15-KÁM ŠE.NUMUN ŠU.DU₇ / UD 16-KÁM ŠÀ.ḪÚL.LA / UD 18-KÁM za-ku-tu pu-šu-ur / UD 20-KÁM MUŠ ḪÉ.EN.GAZ SAG.KAL DU / UD 22-KÁM in di-nim ⸢ma-gir⸣ e-pe-eš Á.ÁŠ / UD 24-KÁM ŠÀ.ḪÚL.LA / UD 26-KÁM bu-sú-ra-a-tum / UD 27-KÁM ka-liš ma-gir / UD 28-KÁM MUŠ ḪÉ.GAZ / UD 30-KÁM ⸢GISKIM⸣ SIG₅ / ša mdIM—MU—PAB
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 P336237.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, 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/P336237/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336237/.
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