SAA 10 177. Revising the Curriculum (ABL 0722) [from diviners][via saao/saa10]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, our lord: your servants Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Naṣiru and Tabnî. Good health to the king, our lord! [May] Aššur, Šamaš, [Bel] and Nabû [bl]ess the king, our lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ina [x x] be ni | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL ⸢x x⸣ | |
o 1111 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni ⸢i?⸣ šú | |
o 1212 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
o 1313 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | (15) The series should be rev[ised]. Let the king command: two 'long' tablets containing explanations of antiquated words should be removed, and two tablets of the haruspices' corpus should be put (instead). | |
o 1616 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) Two rams should be sacrificed before Nabû and before Šamaš; Šamaš and [Na]bû [...] days [...] | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | ⸢UD-me⸣ [x] i*-⸢pat*⸣-[x x] | |
rest broken away |
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/P334511/.