SAA 10 070. Auspicious Dates for a Banquet (ABL 0406) [from astrologers][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—PAB-MEŠ—SU
o 33	lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	^dPA ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL
o 55	EN-ia lik-ru-bu
o 66	ina UGU e-pa-še	(6) Concerning the arrangement of the (divine) 'party' about which the king, my lord, wrote to me — (according to the menologies) "(If) he wants to take the cult ceremonies," it is favourable in this month; it is favourable to arrange the 'party.' Let them arrange it on the 13th, 15th, (or) the 17th day.
o 77	ša qa-re-e-ti
o 88	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni
o 99	GARZA il-qí
o 9a9a	pa-ar-ṣi
o 1010	ina ITI an-ni-e ṭa-ba
o 1111	ṭa-ba qa-re-e^*-tú
o 1212	a-na e-pa-še
o 1313	UD 13-KÁM UD 15-KÁM
o 1414	UD 17-KÁM le-pu-šú
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	ina UGU UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ	(15) Concerning the offerings about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, it is favourable to make them this month. Let them make them tomorrow (or) the day after tomorrow, whenever it (best) suits the king, my lord.
b.e. 1616	ša LUGAL be-lí
Reverse
r 1r 1	iš-pur-an-ni
r 22	ina ITI an-ni-e
r 33	ṭa-ba a-na e-pa-a-ši
r 44	ina ši-a-ri ina li-di-iš
r 55	am—ma-te ina IGI LUGAL
r 66	EN-ia ma-ḫi-ir-u-ni
r 77	le-pu-šú
r 88	ina UGU ^maš-šur—mu-kin—BALA-ia	(r 8) Concerning Aššur-mukin-paleya about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me — he may come, it is favourable to come. May the king, my lord, (live to) lift his grandsons upon his knees! (Nevertheless), they should be on the alert along the roadside and guard him (well).
r 99	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni
r 1010	lil-li-ka ṭa-ba
r 1111	a-na a-la-ki
r 1212	DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú
r 12a12a	mar-mar-i-šú
r 1313	LUGAL be-lí ina bur-ki-šú
r 1414	li-in-tu-uḫ
r 1515	ina ši-id-di KASKAL
r 15a15a	ḫu-u-li
Right
r.e. 16r.e. 16	lu et-ku
r.e. 1717	li-iṣ^-ṣu^-ru-uš

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/P334277/.