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SAA 08 393. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 060) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon at its appearance is faint so that nobody can make it out: it will rain. (4) If the moon becomes visible on the 30th day: there will be frost, variant: rumor of an enemy in the land. (r 1) If the moon at its appearance stands low and becomes visible: a present from a distant land will come to the king of the world. (r 4) From Rašil the older, servant of the king.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336396/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú un-nu-ut-ma / ma-am-ma la ú-ma-an-di-šú / A.AN ŠUR-nun / 1 30 UD 30-KÁM IGI-ir / šu-ru-up-pu-ú : GÙ-mu KÚR / ina KUR GÁL-ši / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-<šú> uš-tap-pil-ma IGI-ir / šu-bul-ti KUR ru-uq-ti / ana LUGAL ŠÚ DU-am / šá mTUK-ši-DINGIR ARAD šá LUGAL IGI-u
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 P336396.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336396). 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/P336396/.
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