Position in chronology
SAA 10 155. A Tablet from the Time of Hammurapi (ABL 0255) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ašaredu. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king of the lands, my lord! (5) The tablet which the king is using is [defe]ctive and not whole. Now then I have written and fetched from Babylon an ancient tablet made by King Hammurapi and an inscription from before King Hammurapi. (14) [Let] the king [...] the ritual according to [...] (Break) (r 2) From A[šaredu] the Youn[ger]. (r 4) Long [since] I [......]. They should believe me.
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P237826/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka [ma]-šá-ri-du / dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL KUR.⸢KUR⸣ / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / ṭup-pi šá LUGAL ip-pu-šú / [ma]-ṭu ù ul šá-lim / [a]-du-ú ṭup-pi / ⸢la⸣-bi-ru šá am-mu-ra-pi LUGAL / [e]-pu-šú ma-al-ṭa-ru / [šá] ⸢pa⸣-ni am-mu-ra-pi LUGAL / ki-i áš-pu-ru / ul-tu TIN.TIR.KI / at-ta-šá-a / LUGAL né-pe-šú / [x]+⸢x⸣ pi-it-⸢ti⸣ / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / šá ma-[šá-ri-du] / qa-at-[an ul-tu] / ul-la ⸢DI*⸣-[x x] / a-na-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / li-qí-pu-ni
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237826.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237826). 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/P237826/.
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