Position in chronology
SAA 10 377. Events Preceding the Enthronement of a Substitute King (ABL 1004) [miscellaneous]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(Beginning destroyed or too fragmentary for translation) (3) On the 12th [......] after [... he went] to Calah. On the 13th he w[ent] to [Calah] with the sons of the king. (8) On the 14th Adad-šumu-uṣur enter[ed] Nineveh and [spoke] with Aššur-naṣir, the chief [eunuch], Sasî and Urad-E[a]: "Let him sit (on the throne) before the eclip[se occurs]." (r 4) The matter [...] spre[ad out] before them [......] (Remainder destroyed or too fragmentary for translation)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
la ⸢i⸣-[x x x x x x x] / ma-a pi-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / UD 12-KÁM ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / id—da-at [x x x x] / a-na URU.kal-ḫa [x x x] / UD 13-KÁM a-na URU.[kal-ḫa] / TAv DUMU-MEŠ—LUGAL it-[ta-lak] / UD 14-KÁM a-na URU.ni-nu-[a] / mdIM—MU—PAB e-⸢ta*⸣-[rab] / TAv maš-šur—PAB-ir LÚv.GAL—[SAG] / msa-si-i mARAD—d⸢É⸣.[A id-du-bu-ub] / ma-a a-du la AN.⸢MI⸣ [iš-kun-u-ni] / lu-ši-ib a-bu-tú [x x x] / ina* ⸢pa*-ni*⸣-šú-nu it-⸢ta*⸣-[lak] / [x x x x] ša LÚv.[x x x x] / ma-a ina É ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ḫa-ka-me TAv ⸢ŠÀ⸣ [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 P334672.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334672). 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/P334672/.
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