Position in chronology
SAA 10 323. Smoke Therapy for Ears (ABL 0570) [from physicians]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(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 crown prince is doing very well. As I visited the crown prince, the crown prince told me: "All my flesh has become well." The king, my lord, can be [glad]. (13) Subsequently I am sending off (an assortment of) drugs for fumigation. The kanaktu and nikiptu oil which I dispatched should be first dripped [into the ear], [thereafter] let them do the fumig[ation]. As soon as they have fumi[gated], they should…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mARAD—dna-na-a] / [lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš] / a-na LUGAL EN-ia dMAŠ u d[gu-la] / DÙG-ub lib-bi DÙG-ub UZU-MEŠ / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu / šul-mu ad—dan-niš a-na DUMU—LUGAL / ina pa-an DUMU—LUGAL e-tar-ba / DUMU—LUGAL iq-ṭi-bi-ia / ma-a UZU-MEŠ-ia gab-bu / i-ṭi-bu-u-ni lib-bu / ša LUGAL be-lí-ia ⸢lu⸣ [ṭa-a-ba] / qu-ta-ri ina ḫa-⸢ram⸣-[me] / us-se-bi-la / Ì…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334392.
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/P334392/..
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/P334392/.
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