SAA 10 357. Interrupting the Elul Festival of Babylon (ABL 0338) [miscellaneous]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | (8) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The month Elul (VI) is intercalary; do not perform the ceremonies this month" — | |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | MI ša UD 06-KÁM mam-⸢mu*⸣—sa-lam | (12) Ammu-salam entered Babylon on the evening of the 6th day; the god Nabû had come before him, on the 3rd. The gate was kept open before Bel and Nabû on the 4th, the 5th and the 6th, and sacrifices were performed. |
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 13b.e. 13 | ||
| b.e. 1414 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | UD 03-KÁM dPA it-tal-[ka] | |
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | (r 6) When I saw the king my lord's sealed order, I issued the order: the rest of the ceremonies of Elul (VI) will be performed in the coming month, as the king, my lord, wrote to me. | |
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 |
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/P334218/.