Position in chronology
SAA 10 179. Will the Chief Eunuch Take over the Kingship? (ABL 0755+) [from diviners]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To the king of the lands, my lord]: your [servant] Kudurru. [May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel and Nabû bless] the king of the lands, my lord! (3) [Ever si]nce the day when the king my lord [dep]orted me, I have sat in confinement, praying to the king, my lord, [every day], (until) [Nabû-kill]anni the chief cupbearer sent [a cohort commander] to release me. (8) As I was walking [with him], he says to me: "You are an expert in [scrib]al lore? [NN] tells me [you] are an expert in scribal lore." (11) It was the month of Marchesvan (VIII) when Nabû-killanni fetched me, and I ended up standing in the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ia ARAD]-ka mNÍG.GUB / [aš-šur dUTU dEN u dAG] a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-lí-ia / [lik-ru-bu TA] ⸢UGU*⸣ UD-mu šá LUGAL be-la-a / [ú-še-eg]-la-an-ni ṣab-ta-ak* u áš-ba-ak* / [UD-mu-us-su a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ia ú-ṣal-la / [mdAG—kil-la]-an-ni LÚ.GAL—LÚ.ŠU.DU₈.A-MEŠ / [LÚ.GAL—ka-ṣir ki]-i iš-pu-raš-šú ip-ta-ṭar-an-ni / [it-ti-šu ki]-i al-li-ku i-qab-ba-a / [um-ma…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237270.
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/P237270/..
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/P237270/.
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