Position in chronology
SAA 13 010. No Deliveries from Talmusu on the [5th] of Kanunu (ABL 1384)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Marduk-šallim-ahhe, the one who blesses you. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Bel, Nabû, Sin, Šamaš, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar of Arbela very greatly bless the king, my lord. May they give to the king, my lord, long days and years of physical well-being. (15) This [5th day] of Kanun (X) belongs to Talmusu. No oxen, no rams — nothing whatever has been brought. For the sake of the life of the king, my lord, his name, and [his] progeny, I have carried out the sacrifices before Aššur and the gods of the king, my lord. I have prepared the entire meal to perfection and brought it into the presence of Aššur.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdAMAR.UTU—DI—PAB-MEŠ / ka-ri-ib-ka / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / daš-šur dEN dAG / d30 dUTU / d15 ša URU.NINA / d15 ša URU.arba-ìl / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / a—dan-niš a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu / UD-MEŠ ar-ku-u-ti / MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ṭu-ub UZU / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / lid-di-nu / [UD 05-KAM] an-ni-u ša ITI*.⸢AB⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ URU.tal-mu-si / ⸢šu⸣-ú / ⸢la⸣ GUD.NÍTA / la UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ /…
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 P334878.
Attribution
Image: 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/P334878/..
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/P334878/.
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