SAA 10 320. Give Me a Month’s Leave, Please (ABL 0109) [from physicians][via saao/saa10]
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o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya: The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | (7) Aššur-mukin-palu'a is doing very well. The king should not be afraid of this fever which has two or three times seized him; his pulse is normal and sound; he is well. | |
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | (13) The baby, the crown prince and [all] the children [of the king, my lord] are (likewise) doing well. | |
o 1414 | ||
Bottom | ||
b.e. 15b.e. 15 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) Concerning the cure of the teeth about which the king wrote to me, I will (now) begin with it; there are a great number of remedies for (aching) teeth. | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Is it (true that) you have been concerned about yourself?" — | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | (r 9) when am I ever free? I take care of Aššur-mukin-paleya; and as soon as I saw him healthy (again), I came for the health of the king. | |
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | ||
r 1414 | ||
Right | ||
r.e. 15r.e. 15 | (r.e. 15) Now, O king, my lord, I should be released for a full month! I must do something — otherwise I shall die. | |
r.e. 1616 | ||
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e. 1e. 1 | ||
e. 22 |
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/P334058/.