SAA 10 108. Leftovers (CT 53 159) [from astrologers]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313574

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 10

High confidence

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Akkullanu. [Good] health to the king, my lord! May [Na]bû and Marduk bless [the king], my lord! (6) [......] the month Adar (XII) [......] (Break) (r 4) [...... c]ome (r 5) [...] and your temples (r 6) [...] eats me up ... (r 7) [The king] should ask the official [o]f the Arrapheans [who] brings the leftovers: "How many oxen and sheep in oil [....] to the Inner City ...[...]?" (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka mak-kul-la-nu / [lu] šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / [d]⸢PA⸣ u dAMAR.UTU / [a-na LUGAL] EN-ía lik-ru-bu / [x x x x x x] ⸢ITI⸣.ŠE / [x x x x x x x]-bu / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ šú ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x] / [x x x il]-la-ku-u-ni / [x x x]-zi ù É—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka / [x x x] ⸢ek⸣-kal-an-ni ⸢tu?-ra?⸣-ma / [LUGAL] liš-al a-na EN—pi-qit-ti / ⸢ša⸣…

Scholarly note

Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313574.

Attribution

Image: 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/P313574/..
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/P313574/.

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