SAA 04 185. Should Esarhaddon Take a Medication? (AGS 145) [medical][via saao/saa04]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	ŠÀ-ba-šú ⸢ub-lu⸣ [i-na IGI DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR-un lil-ti-ma]	(1) [Should Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, as] he wishes, [drink this drug which is placed before your great divinity, and] in drinking this dr[ug will Esarhaddon], king of Assyria, [be rescued and spared? Will he live and get well]?
o 2'2'	i-na ša-qé-e šam-[me an-na-a ^m^daš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na]
o 3'3'	⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR—aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ [i-šet-i KAR-i TIN-ṭu i-šal-li-mi]
o 4'4'	a-na e-zeb [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]	(4) [Is ......] to leave [...]
o 5'5'	mi-⸢tu⸣-[tu x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]	(5) dea[th ......]
o 6'6'	[i]-na [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]	(6) [i]n [......]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	e-zib šá [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]	(r 1) Disregard that [......].
r 2'2'	e-zib šá ⸢TAG⸣-[it SAG.KI UDU.NÍTA TÚG gi-né-e-šú ár-šá-ti lab-šú mim-ma lu-ʾu-ú]	(r 2) Disregard that he who tou[ches the forehead of the sheep is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments], has eaten, dru[nk, or anointed himself with anything unclean, (or) has altered or changed the proceedings].
r 3'3'	KÚ ⸢NAG⸣-[ú ŠÉŠ-šú ku-un ŠU.2 BAL-ú uš-pe-lu]
r 4'4'	e-zib šá a-[na-ku DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL ARAD-ka TÚG gi-né-e-a ar-šá-ti lab-šá-ku i-na MI]	(r 4) Disregard that I, [the haruspex your servant, am dressed in my ordinary soiled garments, have seen] fear and te[rror at night, or jumbled the oracle query in my mouth]. Let them be taken [out and put aside]!
r 5'5'	LUḪ-tú pí-[rit-ti IGI-ru ú—lu ta-mit ina KA-ia up-tar-ri-du]
r 6'6'	lu-ú ⸢ZI⸣-[MEŠ lu-ú BAR-MEŠ a-šal-ka ^dUTU EN GAL-ú]	(r 6) [I ask you, Šamaš, great lord], whether the dr[ug which is now placed] before [your great divinity ...]
r 7'7'	ki-i šam-[mu an-na-a šá i-na-an-na]
r 8'8'	i-na IGI [DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR-un]
	traces of one line; rest broken away	(Break)
Edge
e. 1e. 1	[ITI].ŠU UD 22-KÁM ina URU.a-di-⸢an⸣	(e. 1) [Month] Tammuz (IV), 22nd day. (Performed) in the city Adian.
e. 22	[^m^d]⸢AMAR⸣.UTU—MU—PAB ^mna-ṣi-[ru]	(e. 2) [Mar]duk-šumu-uṣur, Naṣi[ru],
e. 33	[^mtab]-⸢ni⸣-i ^m^dPA—PAB-MEŠ—TI [o]	(e. 3) [Tab]nî, Nabû-ahhe-balliṭ, [NN],
e. 44	[^mx x x] ^m^dPA—šab-ši [o]	(e. 4) Nabû-šabši.

Adapted from Ivan Starr, Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria (State Archives of Assyria, 4), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, 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/P239001/.