Position in chronology
SAA 10 246. Rituals for the Royal Family (ABL 1126) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning lost) (2) May [the king] lift [their] grandchildren [into his lap]! (3) [As to what the king, my lord, said:] "Will you not enter? Will she not perform (the ritual) [in your presence]?" — I shall enter and stay as long as the ki[ng, my lord], said, and she may perform it in my presence. (7) Concerning what the king, my lord, said about [the clothes]: "W[here] will the clothes be placed?" or about the people: "Why will the people be present?" — the clothes should be placed before Šamaš, and she should 'cast the solvents' upon them. A sacred woman will be there to perform a certain…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na [LUGAL EN-ia lu-kal-li-mu] / DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-[šú-nu LUGAL ina si-qi-šú] / li-in-tu-⸢ḫu⸣ [ša LUGAL be-lí iq-bu-u-ni] / ma-a at-ta la te-⸢ra*-ba*⸣ [ina pa-ni-ka] / la te-ep-pa-áš ki-i ma-ṣi ⸢LUGAL*⸣ [be-lí] / iq-bu-u-ni le-ru-ub la-az*-⸢zi*⸣-[iz] / ina pa-ni-ia lu te-pu-uš ina UGU [ku-zip-pi] / ša LUGAL be-lí iq-bu-u-ni ma-a ku-zip-pi ⸢a⸣.[a-ka] / i-šak-ku-nu ú-la-a ina UGU UN-MEŠ ⸢ma*⸣-[a] /…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334744.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334744). 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/P334744/.
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