Position in chronology
SAA 10 313. Slave Girl and Rams for Eclipse Ritual (ABL 0263) [from exorcists]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the mother of the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šuma-lišir. May Šamaš and Marduk show concern for the health of the mother of the king, my lord! (6) The slave girl in the house of Šamâ who was entrusted to my care — once the ritual of the eclipse becomes timely, it will be performed on her. (r 1) The queen mother said: "They should give rams." If it is acceptable to the queen mother, let them appoint that the rams are given to the chief of accounts of the palace.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na AMA—LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka mdPA—MU—SI.SÁ / dUTU u dAMAR.UTU / šul-mu šá AMA—LUGAL / EN-ía liš-ʾa-a-lu / MÍ.qal-la-ti / šá ina É mšá-ma-aʾ / šá ina pa-ni-ía paq-da-tu / ⸢ul⸣-tu dul-la / šá AN.MI i-ba-áš-šú / ina UGU-ḫi-šú / in-né-ep-pu-uš / AMA—LUGAL um-ma / UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ lid-di-nu / ki-i pa-ni AMA—LUGAL / maḫ-ru a-na LÚ.GAL—NÍG.ŠID / šá É.GAL / lip-qí-du-ma / UDU.NÍTA-ME lid-di-nu
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P237903.
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/P237903/..
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/P237903/.
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