Position in chronology
SAA 10 076. Reading Astrological Reports to the King (ABL 1096) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba]. [Good health to the k]ing, my lord! May [Nabû] and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (7) Concerning the report on the lunar eclipse about which the king, my lord, wrote to me — they used to receive and introduce all astrological reports into the presence of the father of the king, my lord. Afterwards, a man whom the father of the king, my lord, knew, used to read them to the king in a qirsu on the river bank. Nowadays it should be done as it (best) suits the king, my lord. (Remainder lost)
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334733/
Why it matters
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 ú-ìl-ti / ša AN.MI d30 / ša LUGAL be-lí / iš-pur-an-ni / ina IGI AD-šú ša LUGAL / EN-ia ú-ìl-a-ti / ša LÚ.A.BA UD—AN—dEN.LÍL / gab-bu i-maḫ-ḫu-ru / ú-še-er-ru-bu / ur-ke-e-et / ina UGU ÍD / LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ / ša AD-šú ša LUGAL / EN-ia ú-da-áš-šú-un-ni / ina GIŠ.qir-si / ina IGI LUGAL i-sa-as-si / ú-ma-a / ki ša ina IGI LUGAL / EN-ia ma-ḫi-ir-u-ni / [le]-pu-u-šu / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334733.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334733). 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/P334733/.
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