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SAA 08 306. Full Moon on 13th Day (RMA 122) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If on the 13th day [the m]oon and sun are seen together: unre[liab]le speech; the ways of the land will not be straight; there will be steps of the enemy; the enemy will plunder in the land. (4) If the moon in Ab (V) is not seen with the sun on the 14th or on the 15th day: there will be deaths; a god (i.e. pestilence) will devour. (7) From Zakir.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237323/
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Transliteration
1 UD 13-[KÁM] ⸢30⸣ u 20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-ME / KA NU ⸢GI.NA⸣ A.RÁ KUR NU SI.SÁ / GÌR.2 KÚR ⸢GÁL⸣ KÚR ina KUR TI-qí / 1 BE-ma 30 ina ITI.⸢NE UD⸣ 14-KÁM lu-ú / UD 15-KÁM KI 20 NU IGI ÚŠ-ME GÁL-[ME] / DINGIR KÚ / šá mza-kir
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 P237323.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237323). 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/P237323/.
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