Position in chronology
SAA 10 175. Deciding about an Extispicy Report (ABL 0773) [from diviners]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (7) Concerning the haruspex appointed to the service of Arbayu who last year made a report to the king, [my] lord, and said: "When A[rbayu] comes, [let them question him] and decide about [the re]port [concerning him]," (r 4) Arbayu is now here — let the king question [him] and decide about the report of his servant.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka mdAMAR.UTU—MU—PAB / lu-u šul-mu / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / lik-ru-bu ina UGU LÚ.ḪAL / ša ina IGI már-ba-a.a / pa-qí-du-u-ni / ša ina šá-daq-diš / ṭè-e-⸢mu⸣ / ina IGI LUGAL be-lí-[ia] / ú-te-ru-u-[ni] / ma-a ki-ma m⸢ár⸣-[ba-a.a] / it-tal-⸢ka*⸣ / [ma-a] a-na [x x x] / [ṭè]-en-[šú] / [li]-⸢ip*⸣-ru-[su] / ⸢ú*-ma*⸣-a már-[ba-a.a] / ⸢an*⸣-na-[ka] / LUGAL liš-⸢al⸣-[šú] / ṭè-e-mu / ša ARAD-šú / li-ip-ru-su
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334547.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334547). 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/P334547/.
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