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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 8
SAA 08 065. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 139) [lunar]
(1) If the moon and sun are in balance: reliable speech will be placed in the mouth of people; the king of the world will make the throne last long. (4) — It will be seen on the 14th day. The remainder of the words are (also) favorable for the king my lord; (when the moon) went into clouds we did not see it. (8) If the moon at its appearance glides through clouds: the flood will come. (r 1) "to glide" is "to go." (r 2) If the moon at its appearance "piles up" the sky: it will rain. (r 4) — It is seen in a piled-up cloud. (r 5) From Nabû-ahhe-eriba.
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