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SAA 08 535. Eclipse of the Moon on Sivan 15 (ABCD 280f) [eclipses]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon makes an eclipse in Sivan (III) on the 15th day: [......] his servants will kill him in a revolt, variant: his elders [...] will die [...]. (4) If the moon makes an eclipse in Sivan (III) in the evening watch: attack of fish, variant: [of locusts]. (5) If the moon makes an eclipse in Sivan (III): the flood will come and flo[od wat]er will [devastate] the land. (6) If it makes an eclipse in the evening watch, and it finishes the watch, and the south wind blows: fall of the king of [E]lam, the king of the Guti, and of their land. (8) If in Sivan (III) [from] the 1st day to the…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236933/
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Transliteration
1 30 ina ITI.SIG₄ UD 15-KÁM AN.MI GAR-⸢un⸣ [x x x x] / ARAD-MEŠ-šú ina ḪI.GAR GAZ-MEŠ-šú KI.MIN AB.BA-⸢MEŠ-šú⸣ [x x] / ÚŠ-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x] / 1 30 ina ITI.SIG₄ AN.MI EN.NUN—AN.ÚSAN GAR ZI-ut KU₆-ḪI.A KI.MIN [BURU₅-ḪI.A] / 1 30 ina ITI.SIG₄ AN.MI GAR A.KAL DU-ma bi-⸢bil⸣ [A]-⸢MEŠ⸣ KUR ⸢ub⸣-[bal] / 1 AN.MI EN.NUN—AN.ÚSAN GAR-ma EN.NUN ig-mur u IM.⸢U₁₈.LU⸣ DU / ŠUB-tim LUGAL ⸢NIM⸣.MA.KI LUGAL gu-ti-i 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 P236933.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236933). 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/P236933/.
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