Position in chronology
SAA 10 216. Preparing for an Eclipse of the Sun (ABL 1435+) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) An order of the 'farmer' [to] Adad-šumu-uṣur and Marduk-šakin-šumi: I am [we]ll. (5) Speak again with the comman[der-in]-chief (as follows): "Will you assume the responsibility fot the eclipse of the sun? Perhaps ..." (10) Surely there will be an eclipse of the sun? Send me definite word!
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-bat LÚ.ENGAR [a-na] / mdIM—MU—[PAB] / [m]dAMAR.UTU—GAR—[MU] / [DI]-mu ia-a-ši / ⸢ša*⸣-ni-ʾa TAv LÚ.tur*-⸢x⸣-ni / ⸢du⸣-ub-ba* ma-a / ⸢pu⸣-tu*-ḫu* ta-na-áš-ši-ia-a / ina UGU* AN.MI dšá-maš / ma-a is—su-ur-ri / pi-iq-ta-a-te / AN.MI dUTU i-šak-[kan] / a-bu*-tú ba-⸢ri-is?⸣-tú / šu-up-ra-a-ni
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334906.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334906). 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/P334906/.
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