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SAA 10 003. Burying the Substitute King (ABL 1376) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, our lord: your servants Nabû-zeru-lešir and Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and [Marduk] ble[ss] the king, [our lo]rd! (8) We went with N[N] and N[N] to the palace [of...]. The mausoleum [...] of the re[ar ...] (Break) (r 2) If [the king, our lord, orders, we will make] a tomb [and put the substitute] king in it. (r 5) (Break) (r 13) What [is it that the king], our [lord], orders?
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334873/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-li-ni / ARAD-MEŠ-ka mdPA—NUMUN—GIŠ / mdIM—MU—PAB / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ni / dAG u d[AMAR.UTU] / a-na LUGAL be-[li-ni] / li-ik-⸢ru⸣-[bu] / a-ni-ni m⸢di⸣-[x x x] / ù mdi-[x x x x x] / i-na É.GAL [x x x x] / ni-ta-lak [x x x x] / ma-ṣa-al-lu [x x x] / ša ku-⸢tal⸣-[li x x x] / i-na [x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x] / ni-⸢da⸣-[x x x x x] / šum-ma [LUGAL EN-ni i-qab-bi] / KI.MAḪ…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334873.
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/P334873/..
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/P334873/.
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