A reading, published with its checks still open. A Vigslist translation.
A king's sickness and deliverance — a first-person royal narrative on K.2599 + K.3069, held for the named doors in Longman's Fictional Akkadian Autobiography and the checks listed with it.
Held, with its checks still open. The reading stands built and is held; its text is not printed on this page. No claim beyond the entry’s own stated posture is made here. The checks that would settle it are named below and are still open; the wording on this page claims nothing they have not settled.
A first-person royal narrative — an unnamed king tells how sickness struck him down and how he was delivered; eBL classifies it as a monologue, and the only genre label scholarship has put on it is Borger’s “royal autobiography.” The speaker is never named; the Kassite connection is one internal mention — “the king of the Kassite land,” whose life was spared — plus the period Borger and Grayson assign the piece on its basis, and no royal name may be attached to the text. No edition and no translation was located in any source checked: Grayson, Babylonian Historical-Literary Texts, mentions it only at p. 8, in his General Introduction; Landsberger, Revue d’assyriologie 62 (1968), p. 130, discusses one line as a Gilgamesh parallel; no treatment stands in the standard anthologies.
The reading stands built: 0 whole, ~28 part, ~47 fragments, 0 invented. Counts marked with ~ are the reading’s own approximations, printed as they stand.
The named doors, eyeballed: Longman, Fictional Akkadian Autobiography (Eisenbrauns, 1991), pp. 193–195 (“Fragmentary Autobiographies”), its translations appendix (pp. 215–244), and its index (p. 269) — the one book whose stated scope covers Borger-labelled fictional royal autobiographies, whose pages were not reached by any route available. With them: Grayson’s chapter text (pp. 47–55 and 101–107), the CDLI artifact page P285856 itself (unretrieved), and Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur II, p. 162, in print.
What would unlock it: those pages, eyeballed. Until they are, the reading stays held and unprinted.
Held reading, K.2599 + K.3069. Its text is not printed here; the named checks above stand open. Published as a held entry 2026-10-23. A Vigslist translation.
Built 2026-10-23 from the Second Collection of the Vigslist translations program (October 23, 2026).
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