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SAA 10 187. Half my Kingdom to the Man Who Cures my Child (CT 53 069) [from exorcists]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord!] May [Nabû and Marduk bless the king], my lord! (6) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "I am feeling very sad; how did we act that I have become so depressed for this little one of mine?" — had it been curable, you would have given away half of your kingdom to have it cured! But what can we do? O king, my lord, it is something that cannot be done. (16) And as to what the king, my lord, said to me about the sons, your lords: "The burning question of 'who' is eating me up" — in the month Sivan…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313484/
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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 LUGAL] ⸢be-lí-ia lik⸣-[ru]-⸢bu⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ / ⸢ma⸣-a ŠÀ-bi ma-ri-iṣ a—dan-niš / ša ina ṣe-ḫe-ri-ia an-ni-⸢e⸣ / ŠÀ-bi iš-pil-u-ni a-⸢ke-e⸣ / né-pu-uš lu-ú ša pa-ṭa-a-⸢ri⸣ / ši-i mi-šil ma-ti-i-ka / lu-ú ta-din lu tap-ṭu-ra-áš-ši / mi-i-nu né-pu-uš LUGAL be-lí / dul-lu ša a-na…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313484.
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/P313484/..
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/P313484/.
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