SAA 08 394. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 147) [lunar][via saao/saa08]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 it]-ti a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ

(1) [If on the 14th day the moon and sun] are seen together: [reliable speech; the land] will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad [favorably]; the king will become happy; [joy] among the troops; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undis[turbed].

o 22

[KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR] DÙG-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KURURI.KI

o 33

[a-na .SIG₅] i-ḫas-sa-su ŠÀ LUGAL DÙG-ab

o 44

[ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi] ERIM-ni bu-lim KURURI.KI

o 55

[par-ga]-niš ina EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ

o 66

[1 30 u 20] šu-ta-tu-ú

(6) [If the moon and sun] are in opposition: [the king of the land] will widen his understanding.

o 77

[LUGAL KUR] uz-nu DAGAL-áš

o 88

[1 30 ina IGI.LAL]-šú SI-MEŠ-šú tur-ru-kam

(8) [If the moon's] horns at its [appearance] are very dark: [disbanding] of the fortified outposts, [retiring] of the guards; there will be [reconciliation] and peace in the land.

Reverse
r 1r 1

[DU₈] bi-ra-a-[ti]

r 22

[a-rad] ma-ṣar-ra-a-[ti]

r 33

[taš-mu-ú] u SILIM-mu ina KUR GÁL-ši



r 44

[ana] BALA UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ

(r 4) (The moon) came into opposition with the sun [on] the appropriate day, its position was equal (to the sun's) portending a reign of long days, (and) [well-being] of the king of the world and his people.

r 55

[ša-lam] LUGAL ŠÚ u UN-MEŠ-šú

r 66

[ina] UD-mu a-dan-ni-šú

r 77

[it]-ti dUTU -ta-ta-a

r 88

[ša]-ni-in man-za-as-su



r 99

[šá mTUK]-šiDINGIR ARAD šá LUGAL IGI-u

(r 9) [From Ra]šil the older, servant of the king.


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/P237912/.