Position in chronology
SAA 10 350. Terminating the Reign of the Substitute King (ABL 1014) [miscellaneous]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning destroyed) (1) Con[cerning the su]bstitute king about whom [the king, my lord, wrote to me]: "He should sit for 100 days" — (2) [now then] he has completed the 100 days, and [his] ki[ngship is finished. As the king, my lord, wr[ote to me I am w]aiting [for the ...]; the king, my lord, should k[now] (this). (6) [...] the blow [......] (7) [...] at the left, Aššur-ahu-[...] (8) [... ov]er there should be good [...] (9) [...] have been deleted. As soon as [......], it will be taken care of [within] 10 days. The king, my lord [should know this]. (11) [Ma]rs, which previously was…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina [UGU] ⸢LUGAL*⸣ pu-ḫi ša [MAN be-lí iš-pur-an-ni] / ma-a 01-me UD-me lu-ši-⸢ib⸣ [ú-ma-a an-nu-rig] / [01]-⸢me⸣ UD-me un-tal-li ⸢LUGAL⸣-[us-su ga-am-rat] / [ki]-⸢i⸣ ša MAN be-lí iš-pur-[an-ni pa-an x x] / [a]-⸢dag⸣-gal MAN be-lí lu-u ⸢ú⸣-[di x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ mi-iḫ-ṣu šu-u [x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša 150* maš-šur*—⸢PAB⸣—[x x x] / [x x] ⸢ša⸣ ma-ka lu-u DÙG.GA [x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ pa-áš-šú…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334675.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334675). 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/P334675/.
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