SAA 10 221. The Substitute King Should Go to his Fate (ABL 0362) [from exorcists][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na [LÚ.ENGAR be-lí-ni]	(1) To [the 'farmer,' our lord]: your servants [Adad-šumu-uṣur] and Marduk-šakin-šumi. [Good] health to our lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk [bles]s our lord!
o 22	ARAD-MEŠ-ka [^m^dIM—MU—PAB]
o 33	^m^dAMAR.UTU—GAR—MU
o 44	[lu-u] DI-mu a-na be-lí-ni
o 55	[^dPA u ^d]AMAR.UTU a-na be-lí-ni
o 66	[lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ ina UGU UD 15-KÁM	(6) Concerning the 15th day [about which our lord] said: "Let the substitute [kin]g [g]o to his fate and let me perform my ritual on the 16th day as before" — the 16th is a good day to perform (the ritual).
o 77	[ša be-lí-ni] iq-bu-u-ni
o 88	[ma-a] ⸢LUGAL^*⸣—pu-u-ḫi a-na šim-ti
o 99	[lil]-⸢li⸣-ki ma-a ana-ku UD 16-KÁM
o 1010	[ki-i] ša IGI-tim-ma
o 1111	dul-li le-pu-uš
o 1212	UD 16-KÁM DÙG.GA a-na e-pa-a-še
o 1313	ki-i ša AD-MEŠ-ni	(13) As our fathers did for their lords, and (as) the 'farmer' has already done once and twice, (while) Bel and Nabû provided well-being, just so let us also do now. Why should we wait as if it were not auspicious?
o 1414	a-na EN-MEŠ-šú-nu e-pa-šú-u-ni
o 1515	ù LÚ.ENGAR ma-la 02-šú
o 1616	e-pu-šú-u-ni
Bottom
b.e. 17b.e. 17	^dEN u ^dAG DI-⸢mu^*⸣
b.e. 1818	iš-ka-nu-ni
b.e. 1919	ú-ma-a
Reverse
r 1r 1	ki-i ḫa-an-nim-ma
r 22	né-pu-uš ki ma-ṣi-ma
r 33	la-a ṭa-bu-u-ni
r 44	a-ta-a ni-kàt-tir
r 55	ù ki-i ša LÚ.TUR-MEŠ-im-ma	(r 5) And as even the apprentices say: "It is recorded as favourable in Inbu bēl arhi," just so we shall keep it. Hence the 16th day is among the good days and is good, (whereas) the 17th day is not good.
r 66	iq-bu-u-ni ma-a a-na MÍ.ŠE
r 77	ina ŠÀ GURUN—EN—ar-ḫi šá-ṭir
r 88	a-ni-nu ki-i an-nim-ma
r 99	ina qa-ti-ni nu-ka-a-la
r 1010	id—da-a-ti UD 16-KÁM
r 1111	ina ŠÀ UD-MEŠ DÙG.GA-MEŠ
r 1212	ṭa-a-ba UD 17-KÁM NU DÙG.GA

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/P334238/.