SAA 10 277. Outline of a Purification Ritual (ABL 0370) [from exorcists][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-nadin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk greatly bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—na-din—MU
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	^dPA u ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 55	a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu
o 66	ina UGU ša LUGAL be-lí	(6) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Write me what the treatment is",
o 77	iš-pur-an-ni ma-a mi-i-nu
o 88	ša dul-lu-un-ni šup-ra
o 99	ina ŠÀ NAM.BÚR.BI-šú	(9) it is said in the relevant apotropaic ritual text (as follows):
o 1010	qa-bi ma-a UD 07-KÁM	(10) "He (the king) sits 7 days in a reed hut, and purification rites are performed upon him; he is treated like a sick person.
o 1111	ina ŠÀ-bi GI.ÙRI.GAL
o 1212	ú-šab tak-pi-ra-a-te
o 1313	in-né-pa-šá-né-eš-šú
o 1414	dul-lu-šú ki-i ša LÚ.GIG
o 1515	in-né-pa-áš
Reverse
r 1r 1	ina 07 UD-me ŠU.ÍL.KÁM-ni	(r 1) During the 7 days 'hand-lifting' prayers before the nighttime deities and the apotropaic ritual against evil of any kind are performed as well, and the seven days he sits in the reed hut, he recites benedictions for his god and his goddess." Thus (is it).
r 22	ša ina IGI DINGIR-MEŠ mu-ši-ti
r 33	ù NAM.BÚR.BI ḪUL DÙ.A.BI
r 44	is-se-niš in-né-pa-áš
r 55	07 UD-me ša ina ŠÀ GI.ÙRI.GAL
r 66	kam-mu-su-u-ni da-li-li-šú-nu
r 77	a-na DINGIR-šú ^diš-tar-šú
r 88	i-dal-lal a-ki-i
r 99	is—su-ri LUGAL iq-qab-bi	(r 9) Perhaps the king will say, "Perform it today" — the 8th day is suitable for performing it.
r 1010	ma-a ú-ma-a ep-šá
r 1111	UD 08-KÁM DÙG.GA a-na e-pa-ši

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/P334246/.