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SAA 10 322. Treating the Crown Prince and a Bleeding Nose (ABL 0108) [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-bein]g to the king, my lord! (7) The crown prince is doing very well. The treatment which we carried out and gave to the chest lasted for 1 1/2 hours; he retained consciousness and afterwards sat up (in his bed). How proper he is! (r 1) Concerning the patient whose nose bleeds, the rab mūgi told me that much blood flowed yesterday evening. (r 7) They are handling those tampons ignorantly! They put them against the cartilage of the nose,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-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 DUMU—LUGAL dul-lu / ša a-na GABA* né-pu-šu-u-ni / ni-din-u-ni 5/6 KASKAL.GÍD UD-mu / it-ta-lak iḫ-ti-ri-di / uk-ti-il i—da-te / it-tu-šib a-ke-e / ta*-ri-⸢iṣ⸣ / ina UGU mar-ṣi / ša MÚD-MEŠ ša…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334057.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334057). 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/P334057/.
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