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SAA 10 194. Medical Tablets for the King (ABL 0012) [from exorcists]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (6) The charge of the 'Lady of Cults' is doing very well; the king, my lord, can be happy. May the great gods of heaven and earth let the king, my lord, see him prosper! (Break) (r 1) for his sons [...]; (r 2) the incantation "Iš[tar, lady of war], who makes man and wom[an] submit in battle." — These 3 tablets I have sealed and dispatched to the king, my lord. (r 8) A maid of the king has written to me from the palace: "Urad-Gula has said: 'Get me the girl Ṣuhru, I will dedicate (her) to the palace.' Send (word) whether he should bring (her) to you or to me."
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P333964/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka mdIM—MU—PAB / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / dAG dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / a-na LÚ.pi-qit-ti / ša dGAŠAN—GARZA šul-mu / a—dan-niš lib-bu šá LUGAL / be-lí-ia lu-u ṭa-a-ba / DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ šá AN-e KI.TIM / né-e-ma-al-šu / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / [lu]-kal-li-⸢mu⸣ / [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] / ⸢a⸣-na DUMU-MEŠ-⸢šú*⸣ [x x x] / a-ṣu-ú ÉN ⸢d*15*⸣ [be-lit MURUB₄ u…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P333964.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P333964). 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/P333964/.
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