Position in chronology
SAA 10 270. Portents in the Annex of Eunuchs (CT 53 933) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [Concerning] these [...]s which appeared in the eunuchs' wing, the chief eunuch said to me: "They said in the palace: Tell them [to pe]rform a ritual against them." (r 1) [On the xth] we shall perform [the first part] of the ritual on them; on [the x]th day we shall perform the remainder of the ritual [on] the river bank. Let it be ordered that the clothes be given to us.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ina UGU] ⸢ka-x⸣-[x]-⸢te⸣ šu-nu / ⸢ša⸣ ina É—ŠU.2 ša LÚv.SAG-MEŠ / ⸢in⸣-na-me-ru-ú-ni / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL—SAG iq-ṭi-bi-a / [ma]-a TAv ŠÀ É.GAL iq-ṭi-bi-ú / [ma-a] qi-bi dul-la-šu-nu / [le]-⸢pu⸣-šú / [UD x-KÁM x]+⸢x⸣ dul*-li / [ina] ⸢UGU*-šú-nu⸣ né-ep-pa-áš / [UD x]-KÁM ⸢re⸣-eḫ-ti dul-li / [ina UGU] ⸢ÍD⸣ né-ep-pa-áš / ⸢ṭè-e⸣-mu liš-ku-nu / [ku-zip]-⸢pi⸣ lid-di-nu-na-a-ši
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P314342.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314342). 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/P314342/.
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