Position in chronology
SAA 10 361. Bel Appears in a Dream (ABL 1021) [miscellaneous]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...... w]rote to me (3) [......] attention (4) [Concerning NN, about whom the king, my l]ord wrote to me, [...... dw]elt (6) [...... is commit]ting suicide, saying (7) [......] no [le]tter [has been sent to me]; I a[m a servant of the king, my lord] — why [has the king, my lord, let] me [pe]rish [......]? [......] of the kings. [I do not wi]thhold [anything] belonging to the cult of the sanctuaries; what is the meal they are asking for? [I shall] give it. (13) "Never have I seen a dream such as I am (now) going to tell! When I was in my country, Bel said to me in my…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334681/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢si*⸣-šú / [x x x x x x x x x x iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni / [x x x x x x x x x x x] uz-nu / [x x x x x x ša MAN be]-lí iš-pur-an-ni / [x x x x x x x x x]-⸢ši⸣-bu-u-ni / [x x x x x x x x uḫ]-⸢ta⸣-ta-ap / [x x x x x x x x x e]-⸢gír⸣-tú la / [x x x ARAD ša MAN EN-ía a]-⸢na⸣-ku a-ta-a / [MAN be-lí x x x x ú-ḫal]-⸢li⸣-qa-an-ni / [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢tú⸣ ša LUGAL-MEŠ / [x x x x x x 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 P334681.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334681). 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/P334681/.
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