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SAA 08 267. Full Moon on 13th Day (RMA 115D) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If on the 13th day the moon and sun are seen together: unreliable] speech; [there will be bad] ways in the [land]; the enemy [will plunder in the land]. (r 1) If the moon is surrounded by a black halo: the month holds rain; [clouds] will be gathered. (r 4) The moon will become visi[ble] in Adar (XII) on the 30th day. (r 5) The moon will become visible in Nisan (I) on the 30th day. (r 6) From Nergal-eṭir.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237660/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 UD 13-KÁM 30 u 20] / [KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ] / KA [NU GI.NA] / ⸢A.RÁ⸣ [NU DÙG.GA] / i-⸢na⸣ [KUR GÁL] / LÚ.KÚR [ina KUR TI] / 1 30 TÙR GI₆ NIGIN / ITI A.AN ú-kal ⸢IM⸣.[DIRI-MEŠ] / uk-ta-aṣ-⸢ṣa⸣-[ra] / 1 30 ina ITI.ŠE UD 30-KÁM IGI-[mar] / 1 30 ina ITI.BARAG UD 30-KÁM IGI-mar / šá mdU.GUR—KAR-ir
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 P237660.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237660). 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/P237660/.
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