SAA 10 150. Lunar Observations (CT 53 293) [from astrologers]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313708

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Transliteration

⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / d30 [AN].MI [x x x] / UD 13-⸢KÁM x⸣+[x x x] / AN.MI [x x x] / UD-mu ur-⸢pu⸣ [x x x] / UD 30-KÁM ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / TAv ŠÀ-bi [x x x] / ik-ta-⸢ra⸣-[ar x x x] / ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / a-na [x x x] / ma [x x x] / a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] / ⸢AN⸣ [x x x] / a-[x x x] / a-[x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

Scholarly note

Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313708.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313708). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313708/.

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