Position in chronology
SAA 10 052. The Crown Prince may Visit the King (ABL 0354) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To] the king, [my lord]: your servant Ba[lasî]. Good health to [the king], my lord! [May] Nabû [and Marduk bless] the king, my lord! (6) Concerning the crown prince [about whom the king, my lord], wrote to me: "[I have been told that he should not go out]doors on the 1st day" — this [applies] (rather) to the 2nd day. (10) Concerning the 1st and the [4th] days about which the king, my lord, w[rote to me]: "Which one is fa[vourable]?" — both are fav[ourable]. We call the 4th day a 'new day.' A new day has the same qualities as the beginning of a month; it is favourable. (18) As to what was…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na] LUGAL [EN-ia] / ARAD-ka mba-[la-si-i] / lu-u DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL] / EN-ia dPA [dAMAR.UTU] / a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ [lik-ru-bu] / ina UGU DUMU—LUGAL [ša LUGAL be-lí] / ⸢iš-pur⸣-an-ni [ma-a iq-ṭi-bu-ni] / ma-a UD 01-KÁM ⸢KÁ*⸣ [NU È] / UD 02-KÁM šu-ú [ina ŠÀ-bi qa-bi] / ina UGU UD 01-KÁM ⸢UD⸣ [04-KÁM] / ša LUGAL be-lí ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] / ma-a a-i-ú ⸢iš⸣-[lim] / ki-i-lal*-le-e ⸢šá*-al⸣-[mu-ti] /…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334230.
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/P334230/..
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/P334230/.
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