Position in chronology
SAA 10 014. The Cella of Nusku (ABL 0673) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (8) Concerning the cella of Nusku, about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Look up a favourable day, and also write down and send me how it should be erected" — (r 1) Sivan (III) would have been a good month and the 17th a good day. (However) now the month is completely gone, (so) when can they do it? (r 7) Elul (VI) is a good month: it is (really) the month for it. During it they should make it, and also during it they should erect it.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka m15—MU—KAM / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia / dPA u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / lik-ru-bu / ina UGU at-me-ni / ša dPA.TÚG / ša LUGAL be-li / iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a UD DÙG.GA a-mur / ù a-ke-e / ša ú-šá-at-bu-u-ni / šu-ṭur še*-bi-la / ITI.SIG₄ DÙG.GA / UD 17-KÁM DÙG.GA / an-nu-rig / ITI ga-mur it-ta-lak / im—ma-ti ú-šá-an-ṣu-u / e-pu-šú / ITI.KIN DÙG.GA / ITI-šú*-ma* šu-u / ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢le*⸣-e-pu-šú / ina ŠÀ-bi-ma lu-ú-šat-bi-u
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334471.
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/P334471/..
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/P334471/.
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