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SAA 10 313. Slave Girl and Rams for Eclipse Ritual (ABL 0263) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the mother of the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šuma-lišir. May Šamaš and Marduk show concern for the health of the mother of the king, my lord! (6) The slave girl in the house of Šamâ who was entrusted to my care — once the ritual of the eclipse becomes timely, it will be performed on her. (r 1) The queen mother said: "They should give rams." If it is acceptable to the queen mother, let them appoint that the rams are given to the chief of accounts of the palace.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na AMA—LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka mdPA—MU—SI.SÁ / dUTU u dAMAR.UTU / šul-mu šá AMA—LUGAL / EN-ía liš-ʾa-a-lu / MÍ.qal-la-ti / šá ina É mšá-ma-aʾ / šá ina pa-ni-ía paq-da-tu / ⸢ul⸣-tu dul-la / šá AN.MI i-ba-áš-šú / ina UGU-ḫi-šú / in-né-ep-pu-uš / AMA—LUGAL um-ma / UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ lid-di-nu / ki-i pa-ni AMA—LUGAL / maḫ-ru a-na LÚ.GAL—NÍG.ŠID / šá É.GAL / lip-qí-du-ma / UDU.NÍTA-ME lid-di-nu
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237903.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237903). 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/P237903/.
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