Position in chronology
SAA 10 180. Give me a House! (ABL 1261) [from diviners]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Naṣiru. May Nabû and Marduk bless the crown prince, my lord! I pray daily to Nabû, Šamaš and Marduk for the sake of the life of the crown prince, my lord! (8) Why am I dying for lack of means and of cold? Five days ago the king said, "Give Naṣiru a house," but nobody has given a house to me. (17) Let me remind the crown prince my lord about it, and let them give me the house which the king promised so that I may not die of cold. (r 6) May Šamaš and Marduk bless the crown prince, my lord! (r 9) May the crown prince my lord remind them about it, and let them give me the house so that I may recover in it, and let me (then) come up and stand in the presence of the king and the crown prince [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na DUMU—LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mna-ṣi-ru / dPA u dAMAR.UTU a-na DUMU—LUGAL / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / UD-mu-us-su dPA dUTU / u dAMAR.UTU a-na bu-luṭ ZI-MEŠ / šá DUMU—LUGAL be-lí-ia ú-ṣal-li / am—me-ni ina la pa-ši-ri / ina ku-ṣu a-ma-a-ti / 05 UD-MEŠ* a-ga-a / LUGAL iq-ta-bi / um-ma É a-na / mna-ṣi-ru / in-na-a / mam-ma É / ul id-di-na / a-na DUMU—LUGAL / be-lí-a / a-na UGU-ḫi / lu-šá-aḫ-si-is-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 P237694.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237694). 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/P237694/.
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