Position in chronology
SAA 08 410. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 151A) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) [reliable speech]; the land will become happy; the g[ods will remember] Akkad favorably; the king will reach complete dominion; the cattle of Akkad [will lie in the steppe] undisturbed. (5) If at the moon's appearance one horn m[eets] the other: the flood will come. (7) Earlier, I wrote to the king my lord as follows: "On the 14th day one god will be seen with the other." (r 1) If the moon reaches the sun and [follows it closely]: there will be truth in the land; [the son] will speak [the truth with his father. — On the 14th day one god] is seen [with the other]. (r…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[KA GI.NA] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ KUR DÙG.GA ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ] / KUR—URI.KI ana MÍ.SIG₅ i-[ḫa-sa-su] / LUGAL ga-me-ru-tú DU-[ak] / bu-lim KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina [EDIN NÁ-iṣ] / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI SI i-[dir] / A.KAL DU-[kám] / ina maḫ-ri-i a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / al-tap-ra um-ma UD 14-KAM / DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI / 1 30 20 KUR-ma KI-šú [it-ten-tu ina] KUR / kit-ti GÁL [DUMU KI AD-šú kit]-⸢ti⸣ / i-ta-mu [UD 14-KÁM…
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 P237957.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237957). 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/P237957/.
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