Saul-miti-yuballidh
letter writer · Assyrian Empire · c. 8th–7th century BC
A man who wrote to the Assyrian king. One letter of his, asking that a physician be sent to a sick handmaid, was found at Nineveh. The name is given in the translator Sayce's reading.
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c. 8th–7th century BC · The whole body of the letter after the greeting. Sayce remarks of it that human nature is much the same in all ages of the world.
Bau-gamilat, the handmaid of the king, is constantly ill; she cannot eat a morsel of food. Let the king send orders that some physician may go and see her.A clay-tablet letter from the royal archive at Nineveh · A. H. Sayce, Babylonians and Assyrians: Life and Customs (1899) · in place of the original: the English translation by A. H. Sayce (1899)
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