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SAA 10 161. Petition Concerning a Lawsuit (ABL 0928) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To] the king, my lord: your [ser]vant Munnabitu. Good health to the king, my lord! [May] Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (5) Aššur-eṭir, the son of Ṣillaya, who informed the king claiming that Nabû-apla-iddin has killed his servants, is speaking to the king falsely and untruly. He has devised a cunning plan: "[...] of the king [...] (Break) (r 2) not [......] (r 3) where [......] (r 4) has not [...]. The [...]s who [info]rmed with [him] have got afraid. (r 6) Though the king has decided their case, nobody is giving them anything, and they are worried about their lives. (r 9) Now, let me and my brothers plead our case against them before the king and let the king decide whatever he wishes.
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P238465/
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Transliteration
[a-na] LUGAL be-lí-ia / ⸢ARAD⸣-ka mmun-na-bi-tu / [lu]-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / [d]PA u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ⸢lik⸣-ru-bu mdaš-šur—KAR-ir / ⸢DUMU⸣ mṣil-la-a šá LUGAL / ú-šá-ʾi-id-du / um-ma mdPA—DUMU.UŠ—SUM-na / ARAD-MEŠ-ia id-du-uk / pi-ir-ṣa-tu u la kit-ti / it-ti LUGAL id-da-bu-ub / ni-ik-lu it-te-ki-il / um-ma [x x x x x x] / šá LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x 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 P238465.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238465). 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/P238465/.
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