Position in chronology
SAA 10 121. New Moon on 1st Day (CT 54 523) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king of the lands], my lord: your servant Bel-ušezib. May [Bel, Nabû and Šam]aš 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 rei]gn of long days. (5) [If the moon at its appearance wears a crown: the king] will reach the highest rank. (6) [If ......]... (Break) (r 3) [......] The king, my lord, [can be] gl[ad indeed]. (r 4) All [gods] to the king my lord (r 5) [......] old age (r 6) [......] days [have o]rdained (r 7) [......] ...... (r 8) [......]... old age (r 9) [......] will enjoy, and his country will expand (r 10) [...... t]his [...] is left
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P237348/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be]-lí-ia ARAD-ka mdEN—ú-še-zib / [dEN dAG u d]⸢UTU⸣ a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia lik-ru-ú-bu / [1 d30 UD 01-KÁM IGI.LAL KA] ⸢GI⸣.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab / [1 UD-mu ina ŠID-MEŠ-šú GÍD.DA BALA]-e UD-me GÍD.DA-ME / [1 30 ina] ⸢IGI⸣.LAL-šú AGA a-pir LUGAL [SAG].KAL-tú DU-ak / [1 x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢MÁŠ?⸣ [x] / [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x x x x]-ú / [x x x x 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 P237348.
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/P237348/..
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/P237348/.
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