Position in chronology
SAA 10 110. New Moon on 1st Day; Appointment of Adad-šumu-uṣur (ABL 1373) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Bel-ušezib. May Bel, Nabû and Šamaš bless the king, my lord! (3) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech, the land will become happy. (4) [If the day] reaches its normal length: a reign of long days. (5) [If the moon at its ap]pearance wears a crown: the king will reach the highest rank. (6) The mayor of Babylon [...... Na'id-Ma]rduk of Bit-Yakin on account of (7) [...]. He became angry and [......] in his presence (8) [...]-ilu son of Illil-zera-ibni in his presence (9) [...] He said to him as follows: (10) "[...], and…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P237537/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ia ARAD-ka mdEN—ú-še-zib / dEN dAG u dUTU a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / 1 d30 UD 01-KÁM IGI.LAL KA GIN-an ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab / [1 UD-mu] ina ŠID-MEŠ-šú GÍD.DA BALA-e UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ / [1 30 ina] ⸢IGI⸣.LAL-šú AGA a-pir LUGAL SAG.KAL-tú DU-ak* / [mna-id—d]⸢AMAR⸣.UTU DUMU mia-ki-nu LÚ.ḫa-za-an-nu TIN.TIR.KI a-na UGU-ḫi / [x x x x]-su-ni-šú ŠÀ-ba-šú ki-i iš-ḫi-ṭu i-na pa-ni-šú…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237537.
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/P237537/..
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/P237537/.
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