Position in chronology
SAA 10 002. The Substitute King Reveals a Conspiracy (ABL 0223) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the 'farmer,' my lord: your servant Nabû-zeru-lešir. Good health to my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless my lord for many years! (6) I wrote down whatever signs there were, be they celestial, terrestrial or of malformed births, and had them recited in front of Šamaš, one after the other. They (the substitute king and queen) were treated with wine, washed with water and anointed with oil; I had those birds cooked and made them eat them. The substitute king of the land of Akkad took the signs on himself. (14) He cried out: "Because of what ominous sign have you enthroned a substitute…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LÚ.ENGAR EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—NUMUN—SI.SÁ / lu DI-mu a-na EN-ia / dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-na EN-ia / MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ma-aʾ-da-te lik-ru-bu / GISKIM-MEŠ lu-u šá AN-e lu šá KI.TIM / lu-u ša BE—iz-bi am—mar ši-na-ni / a-sa-ṭar ina ba-at-ta-ta-a.a / ma-ḫar dUTU ú-sa-ad-bi-ib-šú-nu / ina GEŠTIN NAG-ú ina A-MEŠ TU₅ / ina Ì-MEŠ ŠÉŠ-MEŠ-šú MUŠEN-MEŠ am-mu-te / ú-sa-ab-ši-il ú-sa-kil-šú-nu / LUGAL pu-u-ḫi šá…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334164.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334164/..
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/P334164/.
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