Position in chronology
SAA 08 342. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 022B) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech; the land will become happy. (3) [If the day reaches its normal] length: [a reign of] long [days]. (5) [......] were seen [...]. (6) When [......] are seen, [the scribal art] is not heard about in the market places. [Let me come] up and speak [unambiguously] to the lord of kings. (r 3) [May the king of all lands be] everlasting! (r 4) From Ašaredu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
1 30 UD 01-KÁM IGI-ir KA GI.NA / ŠÀ-bi KUR DÙG-ab / [1 UD ana ŠID-MEŠ-šú] GÍD.DA / [BALA UD-MEŠ] GÍD.DA-MEŠ / [x x x x] ⸢in⸣-nam-ru / [x x x x ki]-i in-nam-ma-ru / [ṭup-šar-ru-ti] ⸢ina* KI*.LAM!⸣ ul iš-šem-mi / [x x x x]-ia a-na EN LUGAL-MEŠ / [lup-ru-us-ma lu]-uq-bi / [LUGAL KUR.KUR lu] da-ri / šá ma-šá-ri-du
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 P237868.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237868). 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/P237868/.
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