SAA 08 442. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 073) [lunar][via saao/saa08]

Obverse
o 1o 1

1 30 ina ITI.NE UD 30-KÁM IGI-ir

(1) If the moon becomes visible in Ab (V) on the 30th day: dispersal of Akkad.

o 22

BIR-aḫ KURURI.KI



o 33

LUGAL kiš-šá-ti be--a

(3) May the king of the world, my lord, not abandon me! Every day I approach the king because of my hunger, and now he assigned me to (making) bricks, saying: "Make bricks!" May the king my lord not abandon me so that I do not (have to) die!

o 44

la ú-maš-šar-an-ni a-na-ku

Reverse
r 1r 1

UD-mu-us-su a-na UGU

r 22

bu-bu-ti-ia LUGAL a-maḫ-ḫar

r 33

u en-na a-na SIG₄ it-ta-as-ki-in-ni

r 44

um-ma li-bit-ti li-bi-in

r 55

LUGAL be--ia la ú-maš-šar-an-ni-ma

r 66

la a-ma-ti



r 77

šá mṭa-bi-ia

(r 7) From Ṭabiya.


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/P237637/.