SAA 10 196. A King may not Stay in the Dark! (ABL 0005) [from exorcists][via saao/saa10]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk, and the great gods of heaven and earth bless the king, my lord, and give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | (10) The charge of the 'Lady of Cults' is doing very well; the king, my lord, can be happy. | |
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | (14) Why, today already for the second day, is the table not brought to the king, my lord? Who (now) stays in the dark much longer than Šamaš, the king of the gods; stays in the dark a whole day and night, and again two days? The king, the lord of the world, is the very image of Šamaš. He (should) keep in the dark for half a day only! | |
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
Bottom | ||
b.e. 17b.e. 17 | ||
b.e. 1818 | ||
b.e. 1919 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | [o? še-tu]-⸢ru*⸣ la DÙG.GA | |
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | (r 10) [Eating of b]read and [drinking of w]ine [will soon re]move [the illness of the king]. | |
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | ||
r 1414 | (r 14) G[ood ad]vice is to be heeded: restlessness, not eating and not drinking disturbs the mind and adds to illness. In this matter the king should listen to [his se]rvant. | |
r 1515 | ||
r 1616 | ||
r 1717 | ||
Right | ||
r.e. 18r.e. 18 | ||
r.e. 1919 | ||
Edge | ||
e. 1e. 1 |
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/P333957/.