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SAA 10 012. Enthroning a Substitute King (ABL 0676) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless my lord! (6) Concerning the substitute king [about whom] my lord wrote to me, [M]a[rs is em]erging [fr]om the Breast [of Scorpius ......] (Break) (r 1) [Concerning the s]igns [about which my lord w]rote to me, [after] we had enthroned him, we had him hear them in front of Šamaš. Furthermore, yesterday I had him hear them again, and I bent down and bound them in his hem. Now I shall again do as my lord wrote to me.
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334474/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na EN-ia / ARAD-ka m15—MU—KAM / lu šul-mu a-na EN-ía / dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na EN-ía lik-ru-bu / ina UGU LUGAL pu-u-ḫi / [ša] be-li iš-pur-an-ni / [MUL.ṣal]-⸢bat*⸣-[a]-⸢nu* TAv⸣ ŠÀ ir-ti / [ša MUL.GÍR.TAB ú]-ṣa-a / [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x] ⸢GISKIM⸣-MEŠ / [ša be-li iš]-pur-an-ni / [ina É] ⸢nú-še*⸣-ši-bu-šú-ni / [ina] ma-ḫar d⸢UTU nu*⸣-sa-áš-me-šú / ù it—ti-ma-li / us-sa-áš-me-šú-ma / aq-ṭa-da-ad / ina qa-an-ni-šú ar-ta-kas / ú-ma-a tu-ra ki-i / ša be-li iš-pur-an-ni / ep-pa-[áš]
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334474.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334474). 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/P334474/.
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