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SAA 10 233. Funerary Rituals (ABL 0378) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. The best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May Ištar of Arbela give happiness and health to the king, my lord! May she sate the king, my lord, with old age and fullness of life! May she present the king, my lord, with long-lasting days! (11) At present I am continuously performing the ritual; and I have the (items for the) king's funeral burning collected in a storehouse [in the Inner] City. (16) Concerning those women about whom the king, my lord, sp[oke], the house where they are lodged is…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdAMAR.UTU—GAR—MU / lu-u DI-mu a—dan-niš a-na LUGAL EN-ía / dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ía / lik-ru-bu d15 šá URU.arba-ìl / DÙG-ub ŠÀ-bi DÙG-ub UZU / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lu ta-ad-din / ši-bu-tú lit-tu-tu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / lu tu-šab-bi UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lu ta-qiš / an-nu-rig ka-a.a-⸢ma-nu⸣ / dul-lu ep-pa-áš [x x]+⸢x⸣ / ù šu-ru-up-⸢tú⸣ [šá] ⸢LUGAL*⸣…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334254.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334254). 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/P334254/.
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