SAA 08 010. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 007) [lunar]

Obverse
o 1o 1

1 30 ina UD 01-KÁM IGI

(1) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech; the land will become happy.

o 22

KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG.GA

o 33

1 UD-mu a-na mi-na-ti-šú e-ri-ik

(3) If the day reaches its normal length: a reign of long days.

o 44

BALA UD-MEŠ GÍD-MEŠ

o 55

1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú AGA a-pir

(5) If the moon at its appearance wears a crown: the king will reach the highest rank.

o 66

LUGAL a-šá-ri-<du>- DU-ak

o 77

ša m15—MUKAM-

(7) From Issar-šumu-ereš.


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/P336374/.