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SAA 10 319. Curing an Abscess (ABL 0392) [from physicians]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord! (8) The baby is much better. I fastened an absorptive dressing on this abscess behind his ear, it rested loosely against its tip. (15) Yesterday evening I opened the lint by which it was attached and removed the dressing on it. There was pus as much as the tip of (one's) little finger on the dressing. (r 9) By your gods, nobody had laid hands upon it — he gave his word (for it). He is very well; the king, my lord, can be glad. He will be cured in 7 or 8 days.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mARAD—dna-na-a / lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / dMAŠ u dgu-la / DÙG-ub lib-bi DÙG-ub UZU-MEŠ / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu / šul-mu ad—dan-niš / a-na la-ku-ú / si-ik-ru ḫa-ni-u / ša ku-tal PI*.2-šú / ta-al-i-tú ina UGU / ur-ta-ki-is ina ap-pi-šú / ir-tu-mu / ina ti-ma-li / ki-i ba-di / ši-ir-ṭu ša ina ŠÀ-bi / ṣa-bit-u-ni ap-ta-ṭar / ta-al-i-tú šá…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334267.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334267). 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/P334267/.
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