SAA 10 059. Assigning a Date for a Dream Ritual (ABL 0076) [from astrologers][via saao/saa10]


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
o 44	EN-ia ^dPA ^dAMAR.UTU
o 55	a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 66	lik-ru-bu
o 77	ina UGU ge-⸢en^-ti^⸣	(7) Concerning the ... about which the king, my lord, wrote to me — the dream rituals should be performed on the 13th day, in the morning. On the 13th day the [moon] will be cover[ed] with the crown of splendour. Afterw[ards], [...] on the 14th day, [the moon] will be seen in opposition to the sun, a good oracular utterance will answer you.
o 88	ša LUGAL be-[lí] iš-[pur-an]-ni
o 99	UD 13-KÁM ina^* ⸢ša^⸣—še^-ra-a-⸢ti^*⸣
o 1010	mu-šu-ta-⸢ti^*⸣
o 1111	le-pu-⸢šu⸣
o 1212	UD 13-KÁM ^d[30]
o 1313	a-ge-e
o 1414	ta-áš-ri-iḫ-⸢ti⸣
o 1515	a-pi-[ir]
Bottom
b.e. 16b.e. 16	ḫa-⸢ra^*⸣-[ma-ma]
Reverse
r 1r 1	a-⸢x⸣+[x x x]
r 22	UD 14-KAM^v [^d30]
r 33	it-ti ^dUTU ⸢in^*⸣-[na-mar]
r 44	gi-ir^*-ru-u SIG₅
r 55	ep-pal-ka
r 66	aš-šur ^dEN ^dPA	(r 6) May Aššur, Bel, Nabû and Šamaš bless the king, my lord! May they give life of distant days, old age and fullness of life to the king, my lord!
r 77	^dUTU a-na LUGAL
r 88	EN-ia lik-ru-bu
r 99	TI.LA UD-MEŠ SUD-MEŠ
r 1010	ši-bu-u-tú lit-tu-tú
r 1111	a-na LUGAL EN-ia
r 1212	lid-di-nu
r 1313	UD 13-KAM^v DÙG.GA	(r 13) The 13th is a propitious day; let them perform it.
r 1414	le-pu-šu

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/P334025/.