Position in chronology
SAA 10 158. Years of Alulim (ABL 0796) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aša[redu] the younger. (2) The moon will not make an eclipse; the king of the lands, my lord, can be happy. (4) May Bel and Nabû grant the years of Alu[lim to the king], my lord! (5) To whom [...] can I tell all the things [that the king, my lord], has given us? The king [......]. (8) Let them give me [.......] (9) to the king [......]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia ARAD-ka ma-šá-[ri-du] / qa-at-nu 30 AN.MI ul i-[šá-kan] / ŠÀ-bi šá LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ía lu-ú [ṭa-a-bi] / dEN u dAG MU-MEŠ šá ma-lu-[lim a-na LUGAL] / EN-ía li-qí-ši mim-ma ma-⸢la⸣ [LUGAL EN-a] / id-di-na-na-ši a-na man-ni-[ma x x] / lu-uq-bi LUGAL [x x x x x x x] / lid-di-nu-nu u [x x x x x x x] / a-na LUGAL [x x x x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237306.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237306). 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/P237306/.
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