SAA 10 371. Plant of Life and Sorceresses to the King (ABL 0276) [miscellaneous][via saao/saa10]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR EN-ia

(1) To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Kudurru. May Aššur, Šamaš and Marduk bless the king, my lord!

o 22

ARAD-ka mku-dúr-ru

o 33

d-šur dUTU ù dŠÚ

o 44

a-na LUGAL be--ia

o 55

lik-ru-bu-ub ul-tu LUGAL EN

(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

a-na KUR.mi-ṣir il-lil-lik

o 77

ina ITI.ŠU AN.MI -kun-nu

o 88

ERIM-MEŠ-ía a-na ba-la-ṭu šá KUR-šur

o 99

      ina ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu ia-a-nu ana 15 u 150

o 1010

il-tap-par a-du-ú

o 1111

.DUMUšip-ri-a-ta TI-šú-nu

o 1212

LUGAL li--al šam-me TI

(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

šá AN.MI šá ITI.ŠU ki-i áš-šá-a

o 1414

a-na pa-ni LUGAL iḫ-te-liq

o 1515

šad-da-qad ina ITI.BARAG

o 1616

ina ŠU*.2 mšu-ma-a DUMU-šú šá

o 1717

[mkab?]-ti-ia

o 1818

[pa-an LUGAL] be--ia

o 1919

[ul-te]-bi*-li

o 2020

[LUGAL a-di] UGU en-na

Reverse
r 1r 1

ṭè-e-mu ul -kun-an-ni

r 22

m.kaš-šap-pa-a-ta

(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

ma-da-a-ta

r 44

a-na LUGAL be--ia

r 55

al-tap-par LUGAL lu-ba-a

r 66

mdPAMUSI. DUMUŠEŠ-šú

r 77

šá mza-kir-ru .MAŠ šu-ú

r 88

Éri-me-ki É.GAL.KUR.RA

r 99

ù ma--i-ti u pa-šá-a-ri

r 1010

a-na mdENŠUR .GARUMUŠ

r 1111

i-pu-up-

r 1212

ul-lu LUGAL be-

(r 12) Did the king, my lord, not order me to visit him twice a year?

r 1313

ṭè-e-mu

r 1414

-kun-an-ni

r 1515

am-ma ina MU.AN.NA

r 1616

02-šú a-na pa-ni-ia

r 1717

al-ka


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/.