Names

  • SAA 10 265

Numbers

  • CDLI P313567
  • BM —
  • 1883-01-18, 0140 + 1883-01-18, 0167
  • CT 53 152
  • SAA 10 265; LAS 199

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Details

  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Esarhaddon.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Scholarly Letter
  • from exorcists

Bibliography

SAA 10 265; LAS 199

SAA 10 265. Giving the Best Possible Advice to the King (CT 53 152) [from exorcists][via saao/saa10]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia]

(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant] Marduk-šakin-šumi. [Good health] to the king, my lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk [bles]s the king, my lord!

o 22

[ARAD-ka md]AMAR.UTU—GAR—⸢MU⸣

o 33

[lu-u DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL EN-ia

o 44

[dPA u] ⸢d⸣AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia

o 55

[lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ ina ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL be-lí

(5) Concerning what the king, my lord, [wrote] to me: "Is this the [tru]th?" — may Bel and Nabû, [your gods], call to account [the one] who is [not honest] with the king, his lord! [...] recently [......; I] was confused. I did not see his [...], (but) perhaps the king, my lord, saw. What can I say?

o 66

[iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni ⸢ma⸣-a an-ni-tu-u ši-i

o 77

[ket]-⸢tu⸣ ša TAv LUGAL EN-šú

o 88

[la ke-nu-u]-ni dEN u dPA

o 99

[DINGIR-MEŠ-ka ina] ŠU.2-šú lu-ba-ʾi-iu-u

o 1010

[x x x is]-su ḫa-ra-am-me

o 1111

[x x x ad]-da-la-aḫ

o 1212

[x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti-šú la a-mur

o 1313

is—⸢su-ri LUGAL⸣ be-lí e-ta-mar

o 1414

ana-ku mì-i-nu la-aq-bi

o 1515

[ket]-tu ana-ku pu-tu-ḫu

(15) In any case, I guarantee under oath: it shall be a great success.

o 1616

[a-na-áš]-ši šum-ma la ⸢du⸣-un-qu

o 1717

⸢ša⸣ a—dan-niš

o 1818

šu-tu-u-ni

Reverse
r 1r 1

⸢šum⸣-ma LUGAL be-lí

(r 1) If the king, my lord, had not attained his desire and i[f] he had not gone safely and happily where he had to go! Why (is the king) [like th]is?

r 22

ṣa-ḫi-it-tu-šú

r 33

la ik-šu-ud ù ⸢šum*⸣-[ma]

r 44

É ḫu-ul-šu-u-ni

r 55

ina DI-me u DÙG-ub ŠÀ-bi

r 66

⸢la il⸣-lik a-ta-a

r 77

[ki-i an-ni]-im-ma 02-šú 03-šú

(r 7) [When] the king, my lord, [former]ly two or three times asked his servant about malformed births or anything at all, did I conceal (anything), be it good or bad, from the king, my lord?

r 88

[É lu-u šá] iz-bi lu-u šá me-me-ni

r 99

[ina pa-ni-ti]-im-ma LUGAL be-lí

r 1010

[a-na] ⸢ARAD⸣-šú iš-al-u-ni

r 1111

[lu-u] ⸢du⸣-un-qu lu-u lum-nu

r 1212

TAv IGI LUGAL-e EN-ia

r 1313

up-ta-az-zi-ir

r 1414

[x x x]+⸢x i—da⸣-tu-u-a

(r 14) After me [...]

rest broken away

(Remainder lost)

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/P313567/.

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