Position in chronology
SAA 10 074. Timing the Visits of Princes (ABL 0082+) [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! (6) Concerning the crown prince about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me saying that the crown [prince should visit the k]ing, my [lo]rd, (and asking) "Is the 1st of Nisan (I) favourable?" — (12) On the 1st of Nisan (I) he should c[leanse and p]urify [oneself], make his food offering to Marduk, libate water and first-quality beer to the right and to the left; (then) this man will shine like the sun. (18) On the 2nd he should not go into the street. (19) On…
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 / ina UGU DUMU—LUGAL ša LUGAL / be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ⸢ma⸣-a UD ⸢01-KÁM ša*⸣ [ITI].⸢BARAG*⸣ / ⸢ma⸣-a DUMU*—[LUGAL ina IGI] ⸢LUGAL*⸣ / ⸢EN*-ia*⸣ [lil-li-ka] / [ma-a] ⸢UD 01-KÁM⸣ [ṭa-ba-a] / [1 ina] ⸢ITI⸣.BARAG UD 01-KÁM LÚ ⸢li⸣-[te-lil] / ⸢li*⸣-te-bi-ib ŠUG-su / ku-ru*-ma-at-su /…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334031.
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/P334031/..
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/P334031/.
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