Position in chronology
SAA 10 338. The Akitu Procession of Sin (ABL 0667) [from lamentation priests]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû, Marduk, Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! (9) On the 17th day Sin sets off and takes up residence in the akītu-temple. Let the king, my lord, order that they give the garments; I should b[ring them] with me. The penitential psalm will be [per]formed ov[er them], he will bless the king, [my lord], and give a life of dis[tant d]ays to the king, [my] lord. (r 3) A bodyguard [should be] sent with me because of [the tr]aitors.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka mARAD—dÉ.A / lu-u DI-mu / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / dAG u dAMAR.UTU / d30 u dNIN.GAL / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / lik*-ru*-bu* / UD 17-KÁM d30 i-ta-bi / ina a-ki-it ú-šab / LUGAL be-lí / ṭè-e-mu liš-kun / ⸢TÚG⸣.gu-zip-pi lid-⸢di-nu⸣ / [is]-si-ia lu-[bi-la] / ⸢ÉR⸣.ŠÀ.ḪUN.GÁ ina [UGU-ḫi] / [in-né]-pa-áš a-na LUGAL [EN-ía] / ⸢i⸣-kar-[rab] / ba*-laṭ na-⸢piš⸣-[ti] / [šá] ⸢UD⸣-me…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334465.
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/P334465/..
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/P334465/.
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