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SAA 10 018. Display Ceremonies in Arbela (ABL 0035) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-eres. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) [Con]cerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The present day, [t]omorrow, and the day after tomorrow, these are (the days) [of] the displays!" — (12) on [the ...]th [day] the king, my lord, said as follows about the old displays: "In Arbela, the display should take place from the 27th till the 29th day."
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P333987/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka m15—MU—KAM / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL / be-lí-ia / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL be-li / [iš]-pur-an-ni / ⸢ma*⸣-[a] UD-mu an-ni-u / ⸢ina⸣ ši-a-ri / [ina] li-diš / [x] ⸢an⸣-na-a-ti / [ša] tak-lim-a-ti / [UD x]-KÁM / [ina] ⸢UGU*⸣ tak-lim-a-ti / ⸢la⸣-bir-a-ti / LUGAL be-li / ki-i an-ni-i / iq-ṭi-bi / ma-a TAv ŠÀ UD 27-KÁM / a-di UD 29*-KÁM / tak-lim-tú ina URU.arba-ìl / lu-ú-kal-li-mu
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P333987.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P333987). 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/P333987/.
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