Position in chronology
SAA 10 114. Eclipse Hidden by Gods (ABL 0895) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Bel-u[šezi]b. May Bel, Nabû and Šamaš bless the king, my lord! (3) (If) an eclipse occurs but is not seen in the capital, that eclipse has passed by. The capital is the city where the king resides. (5) Now there are clouds everywhere; we do not know whether the eclipse took place or not. (7) Let the lord of kings write to Assur and all the cities, to Babylon, to Nippur, to Uruk and Borsippa; maybe they observed it in these cities. The king should constantly listen. (r 1) Many signs of the eclipse came in Adar (XII) and in Nisan (I), and I…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ia ARAD-ka mdEN—ú-[še]-⸢zib⸣ / dEN dAG u dUTU a-na LUGAL be-li-ia lik-ru-ú-bu / AN.MI iš-šá-kin-ma ina URU BALA-e la in-na-mir / AN.MI BI i-te-ti-iq URU BALA URU šá LUGAL / ina ŠÀ-bi áš-bu en-na IM.DIRI-MEŠ ka-la-a-ma / ki-i AN.MI iš-ku-nu ù la iš-ku-nu / ul ni-di EN LUGAL-MEŠ a-na BAL.TIL.KI a-na URU ka-la-ma / a-na TIN.TIR.KI a-na EN.LÍL.KI a-na UNUG.KI / ù BÁR.SIPA.KI…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237880.
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/P237880/..
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/P237880/.
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