Position in chronology
SAA 10 289. Salary Complaints (ABL 0117) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Urad]-Gula. Good health [to the king, my lord]! May all the gods whom [the king, my lor]d, has revered today, very much stand by the king and by [Assur]banipal and Šamaš-šumu-ukin on (the day of) their trial! (7) We prepared all this work that the king performed on the 22nd day and today, and we also wrote the tablets, (while) he did not go near anything because of the picking (of fruit) and harvesting (of grapes). (13) [And] on the 22nd, when the king got angry, [w]e [...]d the (ground) beneath the god and worri[ed to] death. [Bu]t he, as soon as…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia ARAD-ka] / [mARAD—d]gu-la lu-u DI-mu [a-na LUGAL] / [be-lí-ia] DINGIR-MEŠ am—mar ša UD-mu an-ni-[ú] / [LUGAL be]-⸢lí*⸣ ip-⸢làḫ*⸣-ú-ni ina de*-ni ša LUGAL / [maš-šur]—DÙ—DUMU.UŠ ù mdGIŠ.NU—MU—GI.NA / a—dan-niš a—dan-niš li-iz-zi-iz-zu / dul*-lu* an-ni-ú gab-bi-šú am—mar LUGAL* / UD 22-KÁM ù UD-mu an-ni-ú e-pu-šu-u-ni / a-ni-in-nu gab-bu nu-us-sa-aṣ-bit / ù ṭup-pa-a-ni…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334065.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334065). 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/P334065/.
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