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~665 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 13
SAA 13 072. Burnt Offerings to Heavenly Bodies (ABL 0648)
(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant, Nergal-šarran]i. [Good health to the kin]g, [my lord. May Nabû] and Marduk [bless the king], my [lord]. (6) [Concern]ing the stars [about which the king wrote to] me, [(saying): "Before] Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Sin, Šamaš, Bel-matati, Sirius, Antares, Belet-balaṭi, the Pleiades, and Išum — before these gods let them make burnt offerings" — They should at the same time make small ones before Nergal, [be]cause of [...]. (r 11) [Tomo]rrow, [in the e]venin[g, ......]. (r 12) (Rest destroyed)
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