
Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mba-la-si-i
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	^dPA ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 55	lik-ru-bu ina UGU Ú.⸢TÈ⸣.MUŠEN	(5) Concerning the raven about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, (here are the relevant omens):
o 66	ša LUGAL be-[lí iš]-pur-an-ni
o 77	1 Ú.TÈ.MUŠEN mì-im-ma	(7) If a raven brings something into the house of a man, the said man will obtain something that does not belong to him.
o 88	ana É NA ú-še-ri-ib
o 99	LÚ BI mì-im-ma la šu-a-tú
o 1010	ŠU-su KUR-ád
o 1111	1 ŠÚR.DÙ.MUŠEN lu a-ri-bu.MUŠEN	(11) If a falcon or a raven drops something it carries into the house of a man, (or) according to a variant, before a man, the said house will have išdihu. Išdihu (means) profit.
o 1212	mì-im-ma ša na-šu-ú
o 1313	a-na É NA šá-ni-iš
o 1414	ana IGI NA id-di
o 1515	É BI iš-di-ḫu TUK-ši
o 1616	iš-di-ḫu né-me-lu
o 1717	1 iṣ-ṣu-ru lu-u UZU	(17) If a bird carries flesh, a bird, or anything, and drops it into the house of a man, the said man will receive a large inheritance.
Bottom
b.e. 18b.e. 18	lu-u iṣ-ṣu-ru
b.e. 1919	lu-u mì-im-ma na-ši-ma
Reverse
r 1r 1	<$ana$> a-na É NA ŠUB-di
r 22	NA BI zi-it-tú ra-bi-tú
r 33	ek-ka-al

r 44	^dPA ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL	(r 4) May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord, and may they give life of distant days, old age and fullness of life to the king, my lord!
r 55	EN-ia lik-ru-bu TI.LA
r 66	UD-MEŠ ru-qu-ti ši-bu-ú-tú
r 77	lit-tú-tu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
r 88	lid-di-nu LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ-ia	(r 8) I have servants in the land of the Chief Cupbearer, and I have fields and orchards (there). (But) the servants of the Chief Cupbearer, coveting my orchards, have snatched them and chased my people away. Fr[om the mo]ment they chased them, they (= my people) [go]t into a panic and disappeared. May [the gods] not forsake me! [May the ki]ng [feel] pity (for his servant)! May a guard be appointed [for] me, let him do me justice!
r 99	i-ba-áš-ši ina KUR—LÚ.GAL—šá-qé-e
r 1010	A.ŠÀ GIŠ.SAR i-ba-áš-ši
r 1111	LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša LÚ.GAL—KAŠ.LUL
r 1212	GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ-ia iṣ^*-ṣa-aḫ-tú
r 1313	it-ta-ṣu UN-MEŠ-ia
r 1414	⸢uk^⸣-ta^-áš-ši-du-ni UN-MEŠ
r 1515	⸢TA^v^*⸣ [qa]-ni ú-kaš-ši-du-u-ni
r 1616	[ig]-⸢du⸣-ur-ru iḫ-tal-qu
r 1717	[DINGIR-MEŠ]-⸢ni⸣ la ú-ra-am-mu-ni
r 1818	⸢a^*⸣-[na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ re-e-mu
Right
r.e. 19r.e. 19	[li-iṣ-bat]-⸢su⸣ LÚ.šá—EN.NUN
r.e. 2020	[is-si]-⸢ia^*⸣ lip-qí-du
r.e. 2121	de^-⸢e^-ni^* le^*⸣-pu-uš

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/P334229/.

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