Position in chronology
SAA 10 179. Will the Chief Eunuch Take over the Kingship? (ABL 0755+) [from diviners]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To the king of the lands, my lord]: your [servant] Kudurru. [May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel and Nabû bless] the king of the lands, my lord! (3) [Ever si]nce the day when the king my lord [dep]orted me, I have sat in confinement, praying to the king, my lord, [every day], (until) [Nabû-kill]anni the chief cupbearer sent [a cohort commander] to release me. (8) As I was walking [with him], he says to me: "You are an expert in [scrib]al lore? [NN] tells me [you] are an expert in scribal lore." (11) It was the month of Marchesvan (VIII) when Nabû-killanni fetched me, and I ended up standing in the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ia ARAD]-ka mNÍG.GUB / [aš-šur dUTU dEN u dAG] a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ia / [lik-ru-bu TA] ⸢UGU*⸣ UD-mu šá LUGAL be-la-a / [ú-še-eg]-la-an-ni ṣab-ta-ak* u áš-ba-ak* / [UD-mu-us-su a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ia ú-ṣal-la / [mdAG—kil-la]-an-ni LÚ.GAL—LÚ.ŠU.DU₈.A-MEŠ / [LÚ.GAL—ka-ṣir ki]-i iš-pu-raš-šú ip-ta-ṭar-an-ni / [it-ti-šu ki]-i al-li-ku i-qab-ba-a / [um-ma…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237270.
Attribution
Image: BM 099139 + (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237270). 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/P237270/.
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