Position in chronology
SAA 10 382. Medicinal Plants (LAS 231) [miscellaneous]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed or too fragmentary for translation) (r 6) [...] will come out of [captivity] and inprisonment. (r 7) [Naṣ]iru showed me thornbush; it resembles the shoot of a date palm about to burst out this very day, and at its tip it looks like a wire cable. [...] it is a tree indigenous to Assyria; it [also] is a tree indigenous to Babylonia. (Break) (e. 1) [If ......: the k]ing will have no opponents [......]
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P336236/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣ ṣab [x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x ka⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] i ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x ti lu x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-šú ⸢ru⸣ [x x] / [ina ki-li] u me-se-ri È / [mna]-⸢ṣi⸣-ru GIŠ.NIM ši-i uk-ta-lim-an-ni / [a]-⸢na⸣ pi-ri-iʾ-ti šá GIŠ.GIŠIMMAR / šá ú-mu-ma i-pa-ru-an-ni mu-šu-ul / ù…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P336236.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336236). 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/P336236/.
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