SAA 13 073. Complaint of Sickness (ABL 0203)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Nergal-šarrani. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk greatly bless the king, my lord.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dU.GUR—MAN-an-ni
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL
o 44	EN-ia ^dPA u ^dAMAR.UTU
o 55	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 66	a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu
o 77	ITI ina UD-me an-ni-i	(7) Today it is a month since I have been ill and since this acute pain has been piercing me. They have pierced my... and jaw.
o 88	TA^v bé-et mar-ṣa-ku-u-ni
o 99	si-iḫ-lu šu-ú
o 1010	TA^v bé-et i-sa-ḫal-an-ni-ni
o 1111	⸢PAB^⸣.GAR^.GAR^* i-su
o 1212	is-sa-aḫ-lu
Reverse
r 1r 1	ma-a ŠU.2 ^ddil-bat	(r 1) I am being told: "You are afflicted with the 'hand of Venus,' due to intercourse with women." I am afraid. There is (nothing) I can do without the king's permission.
r 22	mar-ṣa-a-ka
r 33	ma-a ina UGU si-iḫ-ir^?
r 44	⸢ša^*⸣ i-sa-a-te
r 55	pa-al-ḫa-ak
r 66	šá la LUGAL la e-pa-áš
r 77	ú-ma-a an-nu-rig	(r 7) Now, therefore, I am writing to the king, my lord. Let the word come forth from the king that he should act and get me through this [sick]ness of mine.
r 88	a-na LUGAL EN-ía as-sap-ra
r 99	ina pi-i ša LUGAL
r 1010	li-in-qu-ta
r 1111	le-e-pu-uš
r 1212	TA^v [mur]-⸢ṣi⸣-ía lu-u-še-ti-iq

Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334147/.