Position in chronology
SAA 10 255. Eclipse Rituals for the King, Princes and the Palace (ABL 0018) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi: (3) Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (5) Concerning the ritual about which the king said yesterday: "Get it done by the 24th day" — we cannot make it; the tablets are too numerous, (god only knows) when they will be written. Even the preparation of the figurines which the king saw (yesterday) took us 5 to 6 days. (14) Now, provided that the king, my lord, consents, the month Tebet (X) would be suitable for performing the counterspells. Let the crown prince [perform] (his part) during that…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdAMAR.UTU—GAR—MU / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / dPA u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ía / lik-ru-bu ina UGU dul-li ša LUGAL / ina ti-ma-li iq-bu-u-ni / ma a-na UD 24-KÁM ep-šá / la-áš-šú la nu-šá-an-ṣa / ṭup-pa-a-ni ma-aʾ-du-ti šu-nu / im—ma-ti ⸢i*-šaṭ*-ṭu*-ru*⸣ / ù šá-aṣ-⸢bu*⸣-[tú šá] NU-MEŠ-ni / ša LUGAL e-mur-[u]-⸢ni⸣ ina ŠÀ UD-MEŠ / 05 06 re-e-šú ni-⸢it⸣-ti-ši /…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P333970.
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/P333970/..
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/P333970/.
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