Position in chronology
SAA 10 348. Riots in Babylon (ABL 0340) [miscellaneous]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! (5) Concerning the gusīgu-jewelry about which I wrote to the king, my lord: "It has not been brought" — 30 jewels, sealed, were dispatched to me via my messenger whom I had sent to the palace. He brought them on the 2nd and I received them with the seal intact, thanks to the genie of the king, my lord. Moreover, the bodyguard Nabû-le'i, brought me, likewise on the 2nd of Ab (V) 26…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía ARAD-ka mDUMU—d15 / lu-u DI-mu a-na MAN EN-ía dPA u dAMAR.UTU / a-na MAN EN-ía lik-ru-bu UD-me ar-ku-te / ṭu-ub UZU ù ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ / a-na MAN EN-ía liš-ru-ku ina UGU NA₄.gu-si-gu / ša a-na MAN EN-ía áš-pur-an-ni nu-uk / la na-aṣ-ṣu-u-ni 30 NA₄-MEŠ kan-ku / ina ŠU.2 LÚv.A—KIN-e-a ša a-na É.GAL / áš-pur-an-ni ú-se-bil-u-ni ina še-e-di / ša MAN EN-ía UD 02-KÁM…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334220.
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/P334220/..
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/P334220/.
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