SAA 10 318. Treating the King’s Skin (ABL 0110) [from physicians][via saao/saa10]
Obverse | ||
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 | ||
o 88 | (8) Concerning the rash about which the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e: "[With what] should they ano[int] my [...]? (When) [...] is finished, the r[ash] subsides for the rest of the day" — | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | [x x x x x]-ia | |
Bottom | ||
b.e. 11b.e. 11 | lip-⸢šu⸣-[šu x x x] | |
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) the king should rub himself with bird fat; it should protect the king from drafts. The clean water with which the king regularly washes his hands in the washbowl should not be hot. The rash will soon be gone (if the king acts in this way). | |
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | ||
Right | ||
r.e. 11r.e. 11 | ||
r.e. 1212 | ||
r.e. 1313 | ||
Edge | ||
e. 1e. 1 | (e. 1) [I] have gone [where the king] sent me. | |
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/P334059/.