Position in chronology
SAA 10 109. Omen of the Kingship of Esarhaddon (ABL 1216) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] now [......] (2) [...] and dates [......] (3) [...] but his messenger [did] not [......] (4) [...] beyond the kingship o[f ......] (5) [...] completed according to his word [......] with the king [...] (6) [I told] him: "You will take over the kingship." Let the king create her [...]. (7) I am Bel-ušezib, your servant and your dog who fears you [...]. (8) Why [did the king my lord sum]mon prophets and prophetesses w[hen I disclosed] the many [th]ings I had heard in Nineveh, (while) [I, who] blocked the exorcist with my mouth and [we]nt to pay homage to the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x]-lu* en-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]-tu ù ZÚ.LUM.⸢MA*⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]-ri ù LÚ.A—KIN-šú ul ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]-bu-ma al-la šá LUGAL-ti ⸢šá x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x x ú]-ma-al-lu-ú a-na UGU-ḫi pi-i-šú KI LUGAL ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] / [aq-ta-ba]-áš-šú um-ma LUGAL-ti ta-na-áš-ši LUGAL li-ib-ni-ši? [x x x x] / [a]-⸢na⸣-ku*…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334798.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334798). 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/P334798/.
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