Position in chronology
SAA 10 138. Clouds (ABL 0423) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Iss[ar-nad]in-apli, the foreman of the collegium of ten scribes of Arbela. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (11) We kept watch on the 29th day; [the place of ob]servation [was cloudy], we did not see the moon. (r 3) Month of Adar (XII), 1st day, eponym year of Sagab (651)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka md⸢15*—SUM⸣—A / LÚ.GAL—10-ti / ša LÚ.A.BA-MEŠ / ša URU.arba-ìl / lu-u DI-mu / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / dAG dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / lik-ru-bu / ina UD 29-KÁM / ⸢ma⸣-ṣar-tu / ⸢ni*⸣-ta-ṣa-ar / [bé-et ta]-mar-ti / [IM.DIRI d]30 la né-mur / [ITI].ŠE UD 01-KÁM / lim msa₁₆-gab*
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334290.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334290). 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/P334290/.
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