Position in chronology
SAA 10 388. Inscribing Waxed Writing-Boards (CT 53 924) [miscellaneous]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [The ... of] the king [asked me]: "Who is this [NN], who is inscribing those waxed tablets of the king, my lord?" (r 1) I said: "Perhaps he personally told it to me; we ...[....]" (Rest destroyed)
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P314333/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢LUGAL x⸣+[x x x x x] / ma-a man-nu m⸢d⸣[x x x] / ša GIŠ.le-ʾa-a-ni am-mu-[te] / šá LUGAL EN-ia i-šá-ṭar-u-ni / nu-uk is—su-ri / ki-i ra-mì-ni-šú šu-ú / iq-ṭi-bi-a nu-uk ⸢a-ni-nu⸣ / il-⸢la⸣-[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 P314333.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314333). 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/P314333/.
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