Position in chronology
SAA 10 089. Why is Nothing being Done Month after Month? (ABL 1397) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning destroyed) (2) [The moon] was eclip[sed ......] (3) [fa]ll of oxen [...] (4) o[f] horses [...] (5) But attention should be paid to ransoming the king's [...]! "When it (or he) emerges during it, the king will be well." I have now brought up this matter and spoken to the king, (for) it concerns us. Have we now ...ed our case [li]ttle or much? And what harm (would it do)? (13) [The king should indeed pay] attention to this matter. [Why], up to now, [the king] has not given [...]? [......]... (r 4) A reed [...] should be constructed, and (the ritual) "Giving a person's substitute to…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x] mu šá ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] / [d30] AN.MI is-⸢sa⸣-[kan x x x x] / [mì]-⸢qit?⸣-ti ša GUD-MEŠ* [x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ a-[x x] / ù a-na pu-ud-de-e ša ⸢x x x⸣ / LUGAL uz-nu lu-u šá-kin ma-a ki-ma ina ŠÀ-bi / it-tu-ṣi ma-a a-na LUGAL DI-mu / ú-ma-a a-bu-tu an-ni-tú / us-se-ṣi-a a-na LUGAL EN-ía aq-ṭi-bi / in*-nu-u ú-ma-a ⸢e?⸣-ṣe-e / mu-ud-de-e ni-iṭ-⸢ṭu⸣-nu / ù mi-i-nu ḫi-[ṭu] / [LUGAL]…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334883.
Attribution
Image: BM 099159 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334883). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334883/.
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