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SAA 10 309. Attacks of Epilepsy (ABL 1289) [from exorcists]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning lost) (1) [...] Epi[lepsy] keeps attack[ing] him [all] the day. (3) I prepared the [sto]nes and the phylactery (used) against epilepsy and put them upon him, (and see), the epilepsy left him. (5) Once the child had calmed down, they put (the amulets) upon the nephew of Zeru-ken: he, too, calmed down. (r 1) [O]nce the nephew of Zeru-ken had calmed down, they put (the amulets) upon that shepherd — your sister [...]. He calmed down. (r 4) [I am An]a-Nabû-atkal, a dead dog, [...] (Remainder destroyed or too fragmentary for translation)
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334832/
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Transliteration
[x] ⸢an⸣ [x] ⸢ú*⸣ AN.⸢TA⸣.[ŠUB.BA] / [kal]—UD-me ina UGU-ḫi-šú i-⸢ma⸣-[qut] / ⸢NA₄⸣-MEŠ KUŠ.me-el ša AN.⸢TA⸣.ŠUB.[BA] / ⸢e⸣-ta-pa-áš ina UGU-ḫi-šú as-sa-kan / AN.TA.ŠUB.BA ur-ta-me-šú ina qa-ni / ša LÚ.TUR i-nu-ḫu-ni / ina UGU-ḫi DUMU—ŠEŠ-šú ša mNUMUN—GIN / ⸢i⸣-sa-ka-nu it-tu-a-ḫa / [ina] ⸢qa⸣-ni DUMU—ŠEŠ-šú ša mNUMUN—GIN i-nu-ḫu-u-ni / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ LÚ.SIPA šu-ú MÍ.a-ḫa-ti-ka / [x] ⸢li⸣ ia…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334832.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334832). source
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/P334832/.
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