Position in chronology
SAA 13 004. There will be an Intercalary Adar (ABL 0401)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) Order of the ki[ng] to Zeruti and to the clergy of Der. I am well, you may be content. (8) Be informed that there will be an intercalary Adar (XIII). Perform the festival and rites of my gods in a propitious month. (Traces of date on reverse)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-mat ⸢LUGAL⸣ / a-na mNUMUN-ú-[ti] / ù a-na LÚ.TU-MEŠ—É / šá BÀD.DINGIR.KI / DI-mu ia-a-ši / ŠÀ-ba-ku-nu / lu ṭa-ab-ku-nu-šú / ITI.ŠE di-ri / lu me-dak-kun-ú-šú / EZEN UD GARZA-MEŠ / ša DINGIR-MEŠ-e-a / ina ITI šal-me / ep-šá-aʾ
Scholarly note
Letter from a temple priest or ritual official to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Steven Cole & Peter Machinist (SAA 13, 1998). ORACC text P237242.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237242). source
Translation excerpted from Cole, S.W. & Machinist, P. 1998. Letters from Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. SAA 13. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa13/P237242/.
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