Position in chronology
SAA 08 516. Predicting Months’ Lengths (RMA 053) [calendrical]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) [the moon will com]plete the day in Adar (XII); on the 14th day it will be see[n together] with (the sun). (3) [The moon] will reject the day in Nisan (I); [the moon] will reject the day in Iyyar (II); [the moon] will be close to rejecting in Sivan (III). Much [... is] not before me. (7) [...] the king of kings [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[d30 ina] ⸢ITI⸣.ŠE UD-mu ú-[šal-lam] / ⸢UD⸣ 14-KÁM it-ti <dUTU> in-[nam-mar-ma] / [d30] ina ITI.BARAG UD-mu ú-tar-ra / [d30] ina ITI.GUD UD-mu ú-tar-ra / [d30] ina ITI.SIG₄ a-na tur-ra qé-ru-ub / [x x] ⸢ma⸣-aʾ-du ina pa-ni-ía ul [x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL šá LUGAL-MEŠ [x x x]
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 P336390.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336390). 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/P336390/.
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