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SAA 10 163. Petition Concerning Lost Property (CT 54 463) [from astrologers]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P236973

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 10
High confidence
(1) To the king of the world, my lord: your servant Nabû-iqbi. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king of the world, my lord! (5) (While) I am here keeping the king my lord's watch, the commandant of Cutha, Aš[ar]edu, has given my father's house to a nayālu tenant and ousted my brothers from t[heir] home. (11) When my brother was approaching Cutha, at his feet which [......] to Cutha (Break) (r 1) [...] said to my [...]: "I hate the country in which your brother is living, along with you." (r 4) My legal adversary who took 50 minas of silver and a mina of gold from my father's house, has been…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

⸢a⸣-na LUGAL ŠÚ be-lí-ia / ⸢ARAD⸣-ka mdAG—iq-bi / ⸢dAG u dAMAR.UTU⸣ a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR / be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / a-na-ku a-kan-na ma-aṣ-⸢ṣar-ti⸣ / šá LUGAL be-lí-ia a-na-aṣ-ru / ma-šá*-ri*-du LÚ.GAR—UMUŠ / šá GÚ.DU₈.A.KI ⸢É—AD*-ia*⸣ / a-na LÚ.na-a.a-lu it-ta-⸢din⸣ / ù ŠEŠ-MEŠ-e-a ul-tu É-⸢šú⸣-[nu] / ul-te-ṣi ŠEŠ-ú-a / a-na GÚ.DU₈.A.KI ki-i iṭ-⸢ḫu⸣-ú / i-na GÌR.2-šú šá a-na ku-te*-e* / [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 P236973.

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/P236973/..
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/P236973/.

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