Position in chronology
SAA 10 217. Ejecting Bile (ABL 0363) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(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 rear palace is well. (8) Concerning the bile which the king, my lord, wrote that he has vomited, it is ... (12) He vomited a lump, (with) the bile settling downward; this sort of it does not portend good. (However), having purged upward and downward, he has (now) been sweating for two days, and is well. The king, my lord, can be glad.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdIM—MU—PAB / lu DI-mu a-na MAN EN-ía / dAG dAMAR.UTU a-na / LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu / DI-mu a-na pi-qit-te / ša É—ku-tal-li / ina UGU mar-ti ša LUGAL / be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a iq-ṭi-a / pa-šu-ut-tu! ši-i / ka-ṣir-tú iq-ṭi-a / mar-tu / a-na šap-liš / it-tu-šib / GAR-šú an-nu-ú / la de-iq / ša a-na e-liš / a-na šap-liš / ú-še-šir-u-ni / 02 UD-MEŠ zu-ú-tú / ik-tar-ra / DI-mu šu-u / lib-bu šá LUGAL EN-ia / lu-u ṭa-a-ba
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334239.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334239). 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/P334239/.
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