SAA 10 319. Curing an Abscess (ABL 0392) [from physicians]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mARAD—^dna-na-a
o 33	lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš
o 44	a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 55	^dMAŠ u ^dgu-la
o 66	DÙG-ub lib-bi DÙG-ub UZU-MEŠ
o 77	a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu
o 88	šul-mu ad—dan-niš	(8) The baby is much better. I fastened an absorptive dressing on this abscess behind his ear, it rested loosely against its tip.
o 99	a-na la-ku-ú
o 1010	si-ik-ru ḫa-ni-u
o 1111	ša ku-tal PI^*.2-šú
o 1212	ta-al-i-tú ina UGU
o 1313	ur-ta-ki-is ina ap-pi-šú
Bottom
b.e. 14b.e. 14	ir-tu-mu
b.e. 1515	ina ti-ma-li	(15) Yesterday evening I opened the lint by which it was attached and removed the dressing on it. There was pus as much as the tip of (one's) little finger on the dressing.
Reverse
r 1r 1	ki-i ba-di
r 22	ši-ir-ṭu ša ina ŠÀ-bi
r 33	ṣa-bit-u-ni ap-ta-ṭar
r 44	ta-al-i-tú šá ina UGU
r 55	ú-tu-li šar-ku
r 66	ina UGU ta-al-i-te
r 77	i-ba-áš-ši am—mar SAG.DU
r 88	ŠU.SI ṣe-ḫi-ir-te
r 99	DINGIR-MEŠ-ka šúm-ma me-me-ni	(r 9) By your gods, nobody had laid hands upon it — he gave his word (for it). He is very well; the king, my lord, can be glad. He will be cured in 7 or 8 days.
r 1010	UZU.Á.2-šú ina UGU
r 1111	ú-me-du-u-ni šu-tú-ma
r 1212	pi-i-šú it-ti-din
r 1313	šul-mu ad—dan-niš
Right
r.e. 14r.e. 14	lib-bu šá LUGAL EN-ia
r.e. 1515	lu ṭa-a-ba
Edge
e. 1e. 1	a-du UD-MEŠ 07 08 i-ba-laṭ

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/P334267/.