Position in chronology
SAA 08 200. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 144C) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: ......]; the cattle of Akkad will lie [in the steppe undisturbed]. (6) [If the moon and sun are in balan]ce: the land will become stable; [reliable] speech will be placed [in] the mouth of people; [the king of the land] will make the throne last long. (r 1) [......]... stood in it. (r 2) [If two stars] sta[nd] in the halo of the moon: [a reign] of lo[ng] days. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336467/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x] ⸢MÁŠ.ANŠE KUR—URI.KI⸣ [par-ga-niš] / [ina EDIN] i-rab-bi-[iṣ] / [1 30 u 20 šit-qu]-lu KUR GIN-an at-mu-ú / [ke-e-nu ina] KA UN-MEŠ GAR-an / [LUGAL KUR] AŠ.TE SUMUN-bar / [x x x] IGI an x a ši ina ŠÀ-bi GUB-[ma] / [1 02 MUL-MEŠ] ina ŠÀ TÙR 30 GUB-[MEŠ] / [BALA] ⸢UD⸣-MEŠ GÍD.⸢DA⸣-[MEŠ]
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 P336467.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336467). 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/P336467/.
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