Position in chronology
SAA 13 017. Sheep for the Temple of Dagan (ABL 0615)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Beginning destroyed) (1) [Concerning the ... incumbent] upon Kilizi and Dur-Samedi — (4) NN, the [...] of the governor of [...] (normally) brings it and makes it pass before [me], and they (then) seal it and bring it to the Inner City. (9) [Now] nothing [...] (Break) (r 1) [7 sheep o]f Kilizi, 10 sheep of Dur-samedi — total: 17 sheep for the temple of Dagan — are at the disposal of the king. They did not transfer them here. They are on the other bank [...]. The king, my lord [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x]-a ina UGU URU.[kàl-zi] / ⸢URU.BÀD—sa-me⸣-[di x] / ⸢ad?-bu?⸣-bu LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x] / ša LÚ.EN.NAM ša [x x] / ú-ba-la ina pa-ni-[ia?] / ú-še-ta-qa i-ka-nu-[ku] / [a]-⸢na⸣ URU.ŠÀ—URU ú-ba-lu-ni / [x x x] me-mì-i-ni / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-li / [07 UDU] ⸢ša⸣ URU.kàl-zi / 10 UDU ša URU.BÀD—sa-me-di / PAB 17 UDU ša É—dda-gan / ina pa-an LUGAL-ma ḫa-na-ak / la-a ú-še-ti-qu / a-na a-ḫu-lam-ma [x x x] / LUGAL be-li [x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ḫi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x]
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 P334427.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334427). 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/P334427/.
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