SAA 10 061. One Should not Think on an ‘Evil Day’ (ABL 0352) [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! May Aššur, Bel and Nabû give happiness and joy to 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	^daš-šur EN ^dPA
o 88	ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi
o 99	ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi
o 1010	a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 1111	lid-di-nu ^d30	(11) The moon has taken an auspicious aspect: it is the beginning of the month.
o 1212	a-na SIG₅
o 1313	pa-ni-šú is-sa-ka-an
Bottom
b.e. 14b.e. 14	⸢SAG^*⸣.DU ITI
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢šu⸣-ú
r 22	[ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL	(r 2) [Con]cerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me — today is an 'evil day,' I shall write (about it) tomorrow. Thinking about these matters today is not good; I shall write tomorrow.
r 33	[be]-lí iš-pur-an-ni
r 44	[UD]-⸢mu⸣ an-ni-i-u
r 55	⸢la^*⸣-mì-i-ni
r 66	ina ši-i-a-ri
r 77	a-šap-pa-ra
r 88	di-ib-bi an-nu-ti
r 99	UD-mu an-ni-i-ú
r 1010	a-na ḫa-sa-si
r 1111	la ṭa-a-ba
r 1212	ina ši-i-a-ri
r 1313	a-šap-pa-ra

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/P334228/.