Adad-shum-usur Adadi-shum-uṣur
the king's scholar · Nineveh, Assyria · 7th century BC
A scholar who served the king of Assyria as his exorcist-physician. Many of his letters to the king were found as clay tablets on the site of the palace at Nineveh.
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7th century BC · After praising the good days of the new king, asking a post for his son Ardi-Gula
The hungry are satisfied. The lean grow fat. The plantations are covered with fruits. Only I and Ardi-Gula among them have our soul depressed, our heart disturbed.A letter to the king · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
7th century BC
They that stand in the palace, all of them, love me not. There is not a friend of mine among them, to whom I might give a present, and they would receive it, and take up my cause.A letter to the king · in place of the original: the English translation by C. H. W. Johns (1904)
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