Position in chronology
SAA 10 142. New Moon on 30th Day (ABL 1438) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-nadin-apli], the forem[an of the collegium of ten] (scribes) of Arbela. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Nabû, Marduk, and Ištar of Arbela bless the king, my lord! (11) We kept the watch on the 29th day; the moon was seen.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka md15—SUM—A] / LÚ*.⸢GAL⸣—[10-ti] / ša arba-⸢ìl⸣.[KI] / lu-u DI-mu / a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] / dAG dAMAR.UTU / d15 ša arba-ìl.KI / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / lik-ru-bu / ina UD 29-KÁM / ma-ṣar-tu / ni-ta-ṣa-ar / d30 na-mur
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334908.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334908). 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/P334908/.
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