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Names

  • SAA 10 094

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Details

  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Assurbanipal.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Scholarly Letter
  • from astrologers

Bibliography

SAA 10 094; LAS 302

SAA 10 094. Full Moon on 15th Day; Reminder Concerning Offerings (ABL 0050) [from astrologers][via saao/saa10]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL EN-[ía]

(1) To the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Akkul[lanu]. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May I hear (about) the king, my lord's health and well-being in the answer to my letter.

o 22

ARAD-ka mak-kul-[la-nu]

o 33

lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía

o 44

dAG u dAMAR.UTU

o 55

a-na LUGAL EN-ía lik-ru-bu

o 66

šul-mu ša LUGAL EN-ía

o 77

ù ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ-šú

o 88

ina ŠÀ gab-ri e-gír-ti-ía

o 99

la-áš-me

o 1010

ina UGU ta-mar-ti 30 u 20

(10) Concerning the observation of the moon and the sun, [her]e is the relevant interpretation:

o 1111

[an-ni]-u pi-še-er-šú

o 1212

[1 ina] ITI.AB UD 14-KÁM

(12) If on the 14th of Tebet (X) [the moon] is not seen [with the s]un: [there will be deaths], and the god will eat.

o 1313

[d30 KI d]UTU NU IGI-ir

o 1414

[ÚŠ-MEŠ GAR-MEŠ] DINGIR* *

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r 1'1'

[.GAL-MEŠ .KÚR] i*-na-qar*

(r 1) [If on the 15th day the moon and the sun are seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the country, and the enemy] will demolish [the city gates].

r 2'2'

[UD 15-KÁM] IGI.LAL-ma ḪUL KURURI.KI

(r 2) [If] (the opposition) is observed [on the 15th day]: bad for Akkad, [g]ood for the Eastland and the Westland.

r 3'3'

SIG₅* KUR*.NIM u KUR.MAR



r 4'4'

1 ina ITI.AB IM.DUGUD iq-tur

(r 4) If a fog rolls in Tebet (X): eclipse of all countries."

r 5'5'

AN.MI KUR.KUR



r 6'6'

ina UGU UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ ša LUGAL

(r 6) Concerning the king's sacrifices which are performed in the kanūnu festival, shall I go and supervise the sacrifices? Or shall I stay here? What is it that the king says? (If I didn't ask), the king, my lord, would say: "Why did you not remind me?"

r 7'7'

ša ina ka-nu-ni in--pa-áš-a-ni

r 8'8'

al-la-ka a-za-za ina IGI UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ

r 9'9'

ú-la-a an-na-ka ana-ku

r 10'10'

mi-i-nu ša LUGAL i-qab-bu-ni

r 11'11'

LUGAL be- i-qab-bi u

r 12'12'

ma-a a-ta-a

r 13'13'

la tu-šaḫ-si-sa-a-ni


Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, 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/P334002/.

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