SAA 10 245. Prophylactic Rituals for the Royal Family (ABL 0453) [from exorcists]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia]	(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin]-šumi. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel, Zarpanitu, Nabû, Tašmetu, Ištar of Nineveh and Ištar of Arbela bless the king, my lord, a hundred years! May they appoint a guardian of health and life for the king, my lord! May they sate the king, my lord, with old age and fullness of life! May they keep firm the foundations of the royal throne of the king, my lord, until far-off days! May they let the king, my lord, see Assurbanipal and his brothers prosper! May the king lift their grandchildren into his lap! May the king constantly see their mental and physical well-being!
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^m^dAMAR.UTU—GAR]—MU
o 33	[lu-u DI]-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	aš-šur ^dUTU ^dEN ^dzar-pa-ni-tum
o 55	^dAG ^dtaš-me-tum ^d15 ša NINA.KI
o 66	^d15 ša URU.arba-ìl 01-me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ
o 77	a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu
o 88	ma-aṣ-ṣar DI-me u TI.LA
o 99	TA^v LUGAL EN-ia lip-qi-du
o 1010	ši-bu-tú lit-tu-tu a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 1111	lu-šab-bi-ú SUḪUŠ GIŠ.GU.ZA LUGAL-ú-ti
o 1212	ša LUGAL EN-ía a-na UD-me ṣa-a-ti
o 1313	lu-ki-in-nu né-mu-lu
o 1414	ša ^maš-šur—DÙ—DUMU.UŠ ša ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú
o 1515	a-na LUGAL EN-ía lu-kal-li-mu
o 1616	DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu LUGAL ina si-qi-šú
o 1717	li-in-tu-uḫ ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu
o 1818	ù ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ-šú-nu
o 1919	ka-a.a-ma-nu LUGAL lid-gul
Reverse
r 1r 1	ina UGU ṭè-e-me ša LUGAL be-lí	(r 1) Concerning the order which the king, my lord, gave me, I wrote every word on a tablet; they said it to me word for word as the king, my lord, had said with his own mouth, it is safe.
r 22	iš-ku-na-an-ni-ni di-ib-bi
r 33	gab-bu ina ṭup-pi as-sa-ṭar
r 44	ki-i ša LUGAL be-lí ina pi-i-šú
r 55	iq-ba-an-ni ina pu-ú-ti
r 66	iq-ṭi-bu-ni šal-mu šu-ú
r 77	ú-ma-a ki-i ša LUGAL be-li	(r 7) Now, if she — as the king, my lord, says — comes to Calah, let them send Ahuni to pick up and bring (the tablets), so she can 'cast the solvents.'
r 88	i-qab-bu-ni šum-mu tal-la-ka
r 99	a-na URU.kal-ḫa a-na ^ma-ḫu-ni
r 1010	liš-pa-ru-ni li-in-tu-ḫa
r 1111	lu-bi-la ba-si pi-šìr-a-ti
r 1212	lu tak-ru-ur ù a-na-ku	(r 12) As for myself, I am presently [col]lecting all the 30 to 40 canonical tablets that are relevant to the matter, as well as (all) the existing non-canonical ones that are ever [per]formed (in this connection).
r 1313	an-nu-rig ṭup-pa-a-ni 30 40
r 1414	SIG₅-MEŠ am—mar ina UGU-ḫi qur-bu-u-ni
r 1515	ù a-ḫi-ú-ti i-ba-áš-ši
r 1616	i-se-niš ša im—ma-ti-me-ni
r 1717	[in-né]-⸢pu^*⸣-šú-u-⸢ni⸣ re-e-šú
r 1818	[a-na-áš-ši a]-⸢ma⸣-ta-ḫa
r 1919	[x x x x x x x x x x]	(r 19) (Remainder lost)

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/P334315/.