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SAA 08 476

  • CDLI P238078
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 01460
  • Primary publication(s): RMA 252F

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Babylonian)
  • Genre: Astrological Report (unclassifiable)
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Babylonian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal
  • Dated: no

Sender Information

  • Sender: Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Ea-[...]
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: (the king)
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SAA 08 476. (no title) (RMA 252F) [unclassifiable][via saao/saa08]

Obverse
o 1o 1

šá LUGAL be- -pur-an-na-[ši]

(1) As to what the king my lord wrote to us: "Are you confident?" we are [...] confident.

o 22

[um-ma] ra-aḫ-ṣa-tu-nu-ú

o 33

[x x]-riš ra-aḫ-ṣa-a-ni

o 44

[x]-MEŠ ma--du-tu ina ŠÀ

(4) There are many [...] in it; it is not likely to rouse anger.

o 55

a-na zu-un-ni-i ul DÙG.GA

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rbeginning broken away

r 1'1'

a-na LUGAL [be--ni li-di-nu]

(r 1) [May they grant it] to th[e king our lord and make you attain] your wishes.

r 2'2'

ŠÀ...KI-[ka lu-šak-ši-du]

r 3'3'

šá mdAMAR.UTUMUPAB u mÉ.A[x x x]

(r 3) From Marduk-šuma-uṣur and Ea-[...].


Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, 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/P238078/.