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SAA 10 316. Conspiracy Crushed - King Turned into a Misanthrope (CT 53 021) [from physicians]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord! (7) The speech that the king, my lord, made to his servants about the former kings who had fallen ill: "How did their servants sit up with them all nights and carry them on litters! How (well) did they keep watch over them!" — (14) the king, my lord, made a speech about men, and all the ale[rt servant]s who have remembered their orders died of throbbing heart because of this speech of the king. (23) Aššur and the…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313436/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mARAD—dna-na-a / lu-u DI-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš / a-na LUGAL EN-ia dMAŠ u dgu-la / ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi ṭu-ub UZU / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu / da-ba-bu ša LUGAL be-lí / TAv LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ-šú / id-bu-ub-u-ni ša LUGAL-MEŠ / maḫ-ru-ti ša im-ra-aṣ-ṣu-ni / ma-a LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ-šú-nu a-ke-e is-se-šú-nu / i-da-li-pu ina ŠÀ-bi GIŠ.NÁ-MEŠ / i-zab-bi-lu-šú-nu ma-ṣar-ta-šú-nu / a-ke-e…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313436.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313436). 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/P313436/.
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