SAA 10 371. Plant of Life and Sorceresses to the King (ABL 0276) [miscellaneous][via saao/saa10]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Kudurru. May Aššur, Šamaš and Marduk bless the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | (5) After the king, my lord, had gone to Egypt and the eclipse took place in Tammuz (IV), there were no men of mine for the life of Assyria among them, (so) he sent (messengers) to every direction. Now then, let the king ask the messengers of their life. | |
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | (12) When I acquired the plant of life of the eclipse of Tammuz (IV), it disappeared in the king's presence. [I dispat]ched it [to the king], my lord, in th[e han]ds of Šumaya son of [Kabt]iya, in Nisan (I) last year, (yet) [up t]o now [the king] has given no order to me. | |
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
o 1818 | ||
o 1919 | ||
o 2020 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | (r 2) I have sent many sorceresses to the king, my lord; the king may check. Nabû-zera-lišir the nephew of Zakir is an exorcist; he has performed the Bīt rimki, Egalkura and "Undoing-the-Curse" rituals for the commandant Bel-eṭir. | |
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 | (r 12) Did the king, my lord, not order me to visit him twice a year? | |
r 1313 | ||
r 1414 | ||
r 1515 | ||
r 1616 | ||
r 1717 |
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/P237791/.