Position in chronology
SAA 10 383. Seeking Employment (ABL 1220) [miscellaneous]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good heal]th to [the king, my lord! May Na]bû and M[arduk] very great[ly bless the king, my lord]! May Aššur, Mullissu, [Sin, Šamaš, Nabû] and Marduk [...] the king, my lord, in heal[th and vigour], and may they bless that [benevole]nt face! May Sin and Nikkal, with whom the king, my lord, has walked, give happiness, physical well-being, long-lasting days and everlasting years to the king, my lord! [May] Nabû and Marduk [......] to the king, [my lor]d! (Break) (r 4) Now [the ...] of the king, my lord, has discharged me, (though) my arms and legs have not yet become feeble! (r 8) [......] (r 9) [May] that [benevolent] face [...] (Break) (e. 1) What shall I do [...]?
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka m]⸢x x x x⸣ / [lu šul]-⸢mu⸣ a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] / [d]⸢AG*⸣ u* d*⸢AMAR*⸣.[UTU* a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / a—dan-niš a—dan-[niš lik-ru-bu] / aš-šur dNIN.LÍL [d30 dUTU dAG] / u dAMAR.UTU ina* šul-[me x x x] / a-na LUGAL EN-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ù a-na pa-ni am-mu-te [SIG₅]-⸢MEŠ*⸣ / lik-ru-bu d30 dNIN.GAL / ša LUGAL be-li ina pa-ni-šú-nu / il-li-ku-u-ni ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi / ṭu-ub…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334802.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334802). 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/P334802/.
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