Position in chronology
SAA 10 068. The King is Back! (ABL 0080) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. (7) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "From now on you will stay in my entourage; if there is something you want to say, write me" — how would I not stand in front of the king, my lord? To whom else would we be devoted? (r 3) The king, my lord, went away until the fourth month; how could I not be shaken up (when) I cannot look at the king, my lord; why should I not embrace (the ground) where the tracks of the chariot of the king, my lord, pass by, (longing) to look at the [ki]ng, my lord, again? May [Bel] and Nabû lengthen [the days of] the king, my lord!
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia / dPA dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL / EN-ia lik-ru-bu / ša LUGAL be-lí / iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a ina ḫa-ra-am-me / ina pu-tú-ú-a / ta-za-az ma-a šum-ma / a-bat-ka i-ba-áš-ši / ma-a šup-ra / a-ke-e ina pu-ut / LUGAL EN-ia / la az-za-az / TAv man-ni-im-ma / aḫ*—ḫur / e-ni-in-ni / šá-ak-na / a-na 04 ITI / ra-ab-bi ur-ḫi / LUGAL be-lí…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334029.
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/P334029/..
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/P334029/.
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