Position in chronology
SAA 10 241. Gripped by Agues (ABL 0019) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (5) Concerning the application of the ṣillibānu-treatment about which the king, my lord, said: "It is very hot" — (8) it must be hot; why (else) are we doing this? Did he not (intend) heat, (when) he said "It should make him sweat?" But why is he seized by ague, through it is early summer? This does not make any sense. It is work of the gods. (r 3) And concerning the string of (amulet) stones — what the king, my lord, said is quite correct. Did I not tell…
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-na LUGAL EN-ía / dPA u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ía / lik-ru-bu ina UGU ka-ra-ri / ša ṣil-li-ba-a-ni ša LUGAL / be-lí iq-bu-u-ni ma-a ṣa-ri-iḫ / a—dan-niš lu ṣa-ri-iḫ / a-ni-in-nu-ma ba-si mì-i-ni / né-ep-pa-áš la-a šu-tú / ṣu-ur-ḫe-e ma-a zu-ú-tú / ina ŠÀ-bi li-ik-ru-ra / ku-ṣu-um-ma a-ta-a / i-ṣa-bat-su la ḫar-pi-i / šu-nu / an-ni-i…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P333971.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P333971). 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/P333971/.
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