SAA 10 319. Curing an Abscess (ABL 0392) [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) The baby is much better. I fastened an absorptive dressing on this abscess behind his ear, it rested loosely against its tip. | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
Bottom | ||
b.e. 14b.e. 14 | ||
b.e. 1515 | (15) Yesterday evening I opened the lint by which it was attached and removed the dressing on it. There was pus as much as the tip of (one's) little finger on the dressing. | |
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | (r 9) By your gods, nobody had laid hands upon it — he gave his word (for it). He is very well; the king, my lord, can be glad. He will be cured in 7 or 8 days. | |
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | ||
Right | ||
r.e. 14r.e. 14 | ||
r.e. 1515 | ||
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/P334267/.