SAA 10 060. Anomaly Omens are Difficult to Read (ABL 0688) [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 EN-[ia]
o 44	^dPA ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL [EN-ia]
o 55	lik-ru-bu ina UGU ⸢ṭup^*⸣-[pi]	(5) Concerning the tab[let] of Šumma izbu [about which] the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Look (at it)! [Who would] write [...] in Šumma izbu?" — there is a particular tablet [in] which the [...]s are written, and I am now sending it to the king. The king should have a look. Maybe the scribe who reads to the king did not understand.
o 66	ša BE—iz-[bi ša] ⸢LUGAL be-lí⸣
o 77	iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢a⸣-[mur]
o 88	ina ŠÀ BE—iz-⸢bi^⸣ e^ ⸢x⸣+[x man-nu]
o 99	i-šaṭ-ṭar 01-en šu^*-[ú]
o 1010	ṭup-pu^* ša ⸢x x x⸣+[x ina ŠÀ]-⸢bi⸣
o 1111	šá-aṭ-ṭa-ra-a-ni
o 1212	an-nu-rig a-na LUGAL
o 1313	us-se-bi-la
o 1414	LUGAL le-mu-ur
o 1515	is—su-ri LÚ.A.BA
o 1616	šá ina IGI LUGAL i-sa-⸢as^*⸣-[su-u-ni]
Bottom
b.e. 17b.e. 17	la iḫ-ki-⸢im^*⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	BE—iz-⸢bu^⸣ da-ʾa^-[na]	(r 1) Šumma izbu is difficult to interpret. The first time that I come before the king, my lord, I shall (personally) show, with this tablet that I am sending to the king, my lord, how the omen is written.
r 22	a-⸢na^* pa^⸣-ra-si^ [o]
r 33	a-na 01-en UD-mu
r 44	⸢ki^-ma^⸣ ina IGI LUGAL EN-ia
r 55	i-tar-ba ina ŠÀ ṭup-pi
r 66	an-ni-i-e ša a-na
r 77	LUGAL EN-ia ú-še-bi-la-an-ni
r 88	ina ŠÀ-bi šu-mu
r 99	ki-i šá-ṭir-u-ni
r 1010	ú-kal-lam ket-tú	(r 10) Really, [the one] who has [not] had (the meaning) pointed out to him cannot possibly understand it.
r 1111	[ša] ú-ba-nu ina pa-na-tu-uš-šú
r 1212	[la] tal-li-ku-u-ni
r 1313	⸢la⸣-mu-qa-a-šú
r 1414	la i-ḫa-ak-ki-im

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/P334486/.