Position in chronology
SAA 13 018. Lapsed and Undelivered Offerings (ABL 0724)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant, D]adî. [Good health t]o the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. (5) Two oxen and 20 sheep, offerings of the king's heart (to be provided) by Diquqina, have not been delivered. The king, my lord, should inquire about them. Three rams are for the temple of Dag[an, x] are for the town of [... for the me]al of [...]. It has now been [x] years that they have not been delivering. They have ceased. The king, my lord [should ...] his soldiers. (r 2) The priest of Aššur consumes [(...)] 20 sheep from the [offerin]gs of Shebat (XI).…
Source: 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/P334513/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] EN-ia / [ARAD-ka m]⸢da⸣-di-i / [lu DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-ia / dAG dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia / lik-ru-bu 02 GUD 20 UDU-MEŠ / SISKUR-MEŠ ša ŠÀ MAN ša URU.di-qu-qi-na / la na-ṣu-ú-ni LUGAL be-li / ina UGU-ḫi liš-al ⸢03⸣ UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ / ša É—dda-ga-[an x] ⸢x⸣ / ša URU.[x x nap]-⸢ti⸣-ni [x x] / an-nu-⸢rig⸣ [x] MU.AN.[NA-MEŠ] / la ú-ba-lu-ú-[ni] / ba-aṭ-lu i-sa-ak-nu / ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li /…
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 P334513.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334513). 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/P334513/.
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