Position in chronology
SAA 10 010. Earthquake in Nineveh (ABL 0034) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, [my lo]rd! [May] Nabû and Marduk [bless] the king, my lord! (5) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "What apotropaic ritual is there?" — there is the apotropaic ritual against earthquake, and it should be performed; [...] should enter the Review Palace. The following (is) [what] is said abo[ut the matter] in the tablet: (11) [If ......, ...] will stay ... (12) [If ......], in that year the prince [......] (Break) (r 2) [... ever]ybody has now [...] (r 3) [...]ed, picked up [...], and ...... (r 5) The king, my lord, should not be worried about it. (r 7) Now it has again quaked in the daytime: (r 8) If the earth trembles in the daytime, dispersal of the land.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a]-na LUGAL EN*-[ia] / ARAD-ka m15—MU—[KAM-eš] / lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN-ia*⸣ / dAG dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia [lik]-ru*-[bu] / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a ⸢mi*⸣-nu* i*-ba-áš-ši ⸢NAM*⸣.BÚR*.⸢BI*⸣ / NAM*.⸢BÚR*.BI*⸣ ḪUL ri*-⸢i*-bi*⸣ ba-⸢ši*⸣ / le*-⸢e*⸣-[pu]-šú* ⸢x⸣+[x x] a-na É*.GAL*—ma*-šar*-⸢te*⸣ / le*-ru*-⸢ub*⸣ ina* ṭup*-pi* an-ni-tú / [ši-i ša ina] ⸢UGU*⸣ qa*-bu-u-ni / [x 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 P333986.
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/P333986/..
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/P333986/.
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