SAA 10 171. Teaching Astrology (ABL 0954) [from astrologers][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	^dAG u ^dAMAR.UTU	(1) [May] Nabû and Marduk [ble]ss the king, [my lord]!
o 22	a-na LUGAL [be-lí-ía lik-ru]-bu	(1) [May] Nabû and Marduk [ble]ss the king, [my lord]!
o 33	ARAD-ka [^mx x x x x]	(3) Your servant [NN].
o 44	šad-da-qàd [x x x x x]	(4) [As] the king last year summoned [his scholars, he did not] summon me with [them], (so) I wrote to the palace: "The apprentices whom the king appointed in my charge have learned Enūma Anu Enlil; what is my fault that the king has not summoned me with his scholars?"
o 55	LUGAL SAG LÚ.[um-ma-ni-šú] ⸢iš⸣-šú-ú
o 66	LUGAL it-ti-⸢šú⸣-[nu SAG-a ul] ⸢iš⸣-ši
o 77	a-na É.GAL ⸢al⸣-tap-ra
o 88	um-ma LÚ.ŠÁMAN.MÁL.LÁ-MEŠ
o 99	šá LUGAL ina pa-ni-ía ip^-qí-du^
o 1010	1 UD^*—AN—^dEN.LÍL il-ta-an-du
o 1111	um-ma mi-nu-ú ḫi-ṭu-ú-a
o 1212	LUGAL it-ti LÚ.um-ma-ni-šú
o 1313	SAG-a ul iš-ši LUGAL iq-ta-bi	(13) The king said: "Have no fear, I will summon you." But when I departed from there, up to now the king has not summoned me.
o 1414	um-ma la ta^-pal-làḫ^ um-ma ⸢SAG^*⸣-ka
o 1515	a-na-áš-ši u la ŠÀ-bi
o 1616	ki-i e-lu-ú a-di UGU^* en-na
o 1717	LUGAL SAG-a ul iš-ši
Reverse
r 1r 1	en-na LUGAL SAG^* LÚ.DUB.SAR-MEŠ	(r 1) Now the king has summoned scribes great and small, but the king has not sum[moned] me, not with the [...] nor with [the ...].
r 22	ra-bu-ú u ṣe-eḫ-ru LUGAL
r 33	ki-i iš-šu-ú a-na-ku
r 44	ul it-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x]-MEŠ
r 55	ul-la it^-⸢ti^⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti
r 66	LUGAL SAG-a [x x x]-ti
r 77	pi^*-[i x x x ip]-⸢qí⸣-du
r 88	LUGAL [x x x x x]-ni
r 99	u ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]-a
r 1010	a-[x x x x x x x]
r 1111	⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]-ía
	two lines broken away	(Rest destroyed or too fragmentary for translation)
r 1414	⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]-nu
r 1515	a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x]-di^?
r 1616	lu-ú^* [x x x x x x]
r 1717	LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [x x x x]+⸢x⸣
r 1818	⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]

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/P237926/.