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SAA 10 348. Riots in Babylon (ABL 0340) [miscellaneous]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! (5) Concerning the gusīgu-jewelry about which I wrote to the king, my lord: "It has not been brought" — 30 jewels, sealed, were dispatched to me via my messenger whom I had sent to the palace. He brought them on the 2nd and I received them with the seal intact, thanks to the genie of the king, my lord. Moreover, the bodyguard Nabû-le'i, brought me, likewise on the 2nd of Ab (V) 26…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334220/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía ARAD-ka mDUMU—d15 / lu-u DI-mu a-na MAN EN-ía dPA u dAMAR.UTU / a-na MAN EN-ía lik-ru-bu UD-me ar-ku-te / ṭu-ub UZU ù ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ / a-na MAN EN-ía liš-ru-ku ina UGU NA₄.gu-si-gu / ša a-na MAN EN-ía áš-pur-an-ni nu-uk / la na-aṣ-ṣu-u-ni 30 NA₄-MEŠ kan-ku / ina ŠU.2 LÚv.A—KIN-e-a ša a-na É.GAL / áš-pur-an-ni ú-se-bil-u-ni ina še-e-di / ša MAN EN-ía UD 02-KÁM…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334220.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334220). 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/P334220/.
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