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SAA 10 165. Petition Concerning Lost Property (ABL 0228) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nergal-eṭir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (6) For 6 years I have been guarding Aššur-etel-šamê-erṣeti-muballissu, and Bel and Nabû have provided good health. (Break) (r 2) (By) Bel and Na[bû ...], your gods: the king, my lord, is merciful. Let the king send a bodyguard with me, so I may go and bring out my brother and retrieve my fortune. Let me go and come back quickly! (r 9) Was it not when I was living in his country, in the land of Yašubu, that the son of Ahu-leʾi ...? Why [......] on the servants? (e. 1) Now then let the king ask his major-domo [...]; he knows all (about it).
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P237969/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdU.GUR—KAR-ir / lu-ú DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / dAG u* dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / 06* MU.AN.NA EN.NUN / šá maš-šur—e-tel—AN—KI—TI.LA.BI / at-ta-ṣar* šul-mu / dEN u dAG ⸢il*-tak*-nu⸣ / šá ⸢be*-lí*-a* x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [ana]-ku* [x x x x x x x x] / dEN ù d⸢AG⸣ [x x x x x] / DINGIR-MEŠ-ka LUGAL be-lí-[a] / re-ma-nu šu-ú LUGAL* LÚ.qur-bu-⸢tú⸣ /…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237969.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237969). 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/P237969/.
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