SAA 10 356. (no title) (CT 53 116) [miscellaneous]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313531

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 10

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) I am [......] (2) my people [......] (3) leap year [......] (4) they should intercalate [......] (5) of the eclipse in the month Te[bet (X) ...]. (6) On the 3rd of Elul (VI) [Bel is dressed]; (7) on the 4th day [is] the [great Ga]te Opening. [The king, my lord], should know this. (Break) (r 3) flesh [......] (r 4) to animate [......]. (r 5) Now t[hen......] (r 6) of 20 yea[rs ......] (r 7) he took [......] (r 8) anyone may [......] (Break) (e. 1) [...] are placed before the gods [......] (e. 2) [...]... became afraid ...[...].

State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

a-na-ku-u-⸢ni x⸣+[x x x x x x] / UN-MEŠ-ia ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x] / šá-at-ti di-ri [x x x x x] / li-dir-i-u ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ša AN.MI ina ITI.⸢AB⸣ [x x x x x] / ina ITI.KIN UD 03-⸢KÁM⸣ [lu-bu-su ša dEN] / UD 04-KÁM pe-te ⸢KÁ⸣ [GAL-u šu-tu MAN be-lí] / ⸢lu⸣-[u] ⸢ú⸣-[di] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] / zu-⸢ú⸣-[x x x x x x x x x] / UZU-MEŠ [x x x x x x x x x] / na-ʾu-ú [x x x x x…

Scholarly note

Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313531.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313531). 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/P313531/.

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