Position in chronology
SAA 10 325. Treating the Skin of the ‘Farmer’ (CT 53 052) [from physicians]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) [To the 'farmer,' my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the 'farmer,' my lord!] May [Ninurta and Gula] gi[ve happiness and physical well-being to the 'farme]r,' my lord! (6) [As to the cure] of the blotches [......], they should let me enter [...] (9) seed of the beet plant [...] (10) whose mouth [......] (11) in water [......] (Break) (r 1) is good [......] (r 2) they should do it regularly [......]. (r 3) Perhaps my lord will sa[y]: "This is a gloo[my] day — [it is n]ot auspicious for performing (that)!" — this [treatment] which we are performing [...] a gloom[y day ......] (Remainder lost)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LÚ.ENGAR EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mARAD—dna-na-a] / [lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš] / [a-na LÚ.ENGAR EN-ia dMAŠ u dgu-la] / [DÙG-ub lib-bi DÙG-ub UZU-MEŠ a-na] / [LÚ].⸢ENGAR⸣ EN-ia ⸢lid⸣-[di-nu ina UGU bu-ul-ṭi] / ša pi-ʾa-ri ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / lu-še-ri-bu-u-[ni x x x x x] / NUMUN GAZI!.SAR ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ pi-i-šú [x x x x x x x x] / ina A-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢de⸣-ii-qi ⸢03⸣ [x…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313467.
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/P313467/..
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/P313467/.
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