Position in chronology
SAA 10 301. Report on a Royal Baby (ABL 0178) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-naṣir. May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord! (7) The charge of the 'Lady of Cults' is doing very well; the king, my lord, can be glad indeed. (r 1) May the king, my lord, lift the grandchildren of the charge of the 'Lady of Cults' upon his knees and see gray hairs in their beards!
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdAG—PAB-ir / dAG ù dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / a—dan-niš / lik-ru-bu / DI-mu a—dan-niš a—dan-niš / a-na pi-qi-te / ša dGAŠAN—par-ṣi / ŠÀ-bi ša LUGAL / be-lí-ia / a—dan-niš / lu ṭa-ab-šú / ša pi-qit-te / ša dGAŠAN—par-ṣi / LUGAL be-lí / DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú / ina bur-ke-e-šú / li-in-tu-ḫu / par-šu-ma-a-te / ina zi-iq-ni-šú-nu / le-mur
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334123.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334123). 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/P334123/.
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