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SAA 10 185. The Promotion of Assurbanipal (CT 53 031) [from exorcists]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord]: your serv[ant Adad-šumu-uṣur]. Good health t[o the king], my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (5) What has not been done in heaven, the king, my lord, has done upon earth and shown us: you have girded a son of yours with headband and entrusted to him the kingship of Assyria; your eldest son you have set to the kingship in Babylon. You have placed the first on your right, the second on your left side! (13) (When) we saw (this), we blessed the king, our lord, and our hearts were delighted. May Aššur, Šamaš, Na[bû, Marduk], and the great gods of…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313446/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / ⸢ARAD⸣-ka [mdIM—MU—PAB] / lu DI-mu a-[na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia / dAG dAMAR.UTU a-na MAN EN-ia / lik-ru-bu ša ina AN-e la e-piš-u-ni / LUGAL be-lí ina kaq-qi-ri e-tap-áš / uk-ta-li-im-a-na-ši DUMU-ka / TÚG.pi-tu-tu tar-ta-kas LUGAL-ú-tú / ša KUR—aš-šur ina pa-ni-šú tu-us-sa-ad-gi-il / DUMU.UŠ-ka GAL-ú a-na LUGAL-ú-te / ina KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ta-as-sa-kan / 01 ina ZAG-ka 02-ú ina…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313446.
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/P313446/..
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/P313446/.
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