SAA 08 320. Full Moon on 16th Day (RMA 082) [lunar][via saao/saa08]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) If the moon becomes late at an inappropriate time and is not seen: attack of a ruling city. — It is seen on the 16th day. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) If the moon is not seen: the gods will make an unfavorable decision about the land. | |
o 44 | (4) I.e., one god is not seen with the other on the 14th or 15th day. | |
o 55 | (5) If the moon in Elul (VI) is seen with the sun neither on the 14th nor on the 15th day: lions will rage and block the traffic. | |
o 66 | ||
o 77 | (7) If the light of the moon and sun is very dark: the king will be angry with his land and his people. | |
o 88 | (8) Within one month the moon and sun will make an eclipse; i.e. each month on the 14th day one god will not be seen with the other. | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) If on the 16th day the moon and sun are seen together: one king will send messages of hostility to another; the king will be shut up in his palace for the length [of a month]; the step of the enemy will be set towards his land; the enemy will march around in [his] land victoriously. If ditto: the king of Subartu will become strong and have no rival. | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) The [ki]ng must not become negligent about these observations of the mo[on]; let the king perform either a namburbi or [so]me ritual which is pertinent to it. | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | (r 10) From Munnabitu. |
Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237878/.