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Inscription

SAA 08 320. Full Moon on 16th Day (RMA 082) [lunar][via saao/saa08]

Obverse
o 1o 1

1 d30 ina la si-ma-ni uḫ-ḫi-ram-ma NU IGI

(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

te--e URU kiš-šá- UD 16-KÁM IGI-ma

o 33

1 d30 NU IGI DINGIR-MEŠ GALGA KUR ana ḪUL-tim GALGA-MEŠ

(3) If the moon is not seen: the gods will make an unfavorable decision about the land.

o 44

šá UD 14-KÁM UD 15-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR NU IGI-ru

(4) I.e., one god is not seen with the other on the 14th or 15th day.

o 55

1 d30 ina ITI.KIN lu-ú UD 14-KÁM lu-ú UD 15-KAM

(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

KI dUTU NU IGI UR.A-MEŠ IDIM-MEŠ A. KUD-MEŠ

o 77

1 d30 u dUTU UD.DA-su-nu du-ʾu-ú-mat

(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

LUGAL KI KUR-šú u UN-MEŠ-šú ze-ni i-na 01-en ITI

(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

d30 u dUTU AN.MI GAR-MEŠ-ma : šá UD 14-KAM

o 1010

ITI-us-su DINGIR KI DINGIR NU IGI-ru

Reverse
r 1r 1

1 UD 16-KÁM d30 u dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ

(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

LUGAL ana LUGAL .KÚR KIN LUGAL ina É.GAL-šú ana ŠID [ITI]

r 33

ú-ta-sar GÌR KÚR ana KUR-šú GAR-an KÚR ina KUR-[šú]

r 44

šal-ṭa-niš DU-MEŠ

r 55

1 KI.MIN LUGAL SU.BIR₄.KI i-dan-nin-ma GABA.RI NU TUK-ši



r 66

a-na UGU ta-ma-ra-a-ti a-gan-na-a-ti

(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

šá d30 LUGAL la i-šá-ṭu lu-ú NAM.BÚR.BI

r 88

lu-ú [mim]-ma dul-lu šá a-na UGU-ḫi qer-bu

r 99

LUGAL li-pu-



r 1010

šá mmun-na-bi-tu

(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/.

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