Reading the tablets…
~675 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine
SAA 04 085. Fragment Similar to No. 84 [military and political]
[......] ... [... I ask you, Šamaš, great lord: give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you!] [Concerning] this [matter of the query]: [Esarhaddon, king of Assyria] — [from] the beginning of this year until [the month of Tammuz (IV) of this] year, [with]in that ... , days (and) ni[ghts, the stipulated term] — should they take [the road] and the highway and [march to Egypt (Muṣru)], and come [safely] to Nineveh, an[d ......]? [Be present in th]is [ram], pla[ce (in it)] [a firm positive answer], favorable, propitious [fles]hes of the oracular query, by [the command of your great divi…
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