Position in chronology
SAA 10 163. Petition Concerning Lost Property (CT 54 463) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king of the world, my lord: your servant Nabû-iqbi. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king of the world, my lord! (5) (While) I am here keeping the king my lord's watch, the commandant of Cutha, Aš[ar]edu, has given my father's house to a nayālu tenant and ousted my brothers from t[heir] home. (11) When my brother was approaching Cutha, at his feet which [......] to Cutha (Break) (r 1) [...] said to my [...]: "I hate the country in which your brother is living, along with you." (r 4) My legal adversary who took 50 minas of silver and a mina of gold from my father's house, has been…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P236973/
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Transliteration
⸢a⸣-na LUGAL ŠÚ be-lí-ia / ⸢ARAD⸣-ka mdAG—iq-bi / ⸢dAG u dAMAR.UTU⸣ a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / a-na-ku a-kan-na ma-aṣ-⸢ṣar-ti⸣ / šá LUGAL be-lí-ia a-na-aṣ-ru / ma-šá*-ri*-du LÚ.GAR—UMUŠ / šá GÚ.DU₈.A.KI ⸢É—AD*-ia*⸣ / a-na LÚ.na-a.a-lu it-ta-⸢din⸣ / ù ŠEŠ-MEŠ-e-a ul-tu É-⸢šú⸣-[nu] / ul-te-ṣi ŠEŠ-ú-a / a-na GÚ.DU₈.A.KI ki-i iṭ-⸢ḫu⸣-ú / i-na GÌR.2-šú šá a-na ku-te*-e* / [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 P236973.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236973). 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/P236973/.
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