Position in chronology
SAA 13 021. Big Problems with Sheep Deliveries (CT 53 129)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) [To the king, my lord]: yo[ur servant, Dadî]. Good heal[th to the king, my lord]. May Nabû and [Mardu]k ble[ss] the [king, my lord]. (5) Your father ma[de] a decision. The previous year, the king [...]ed 10,000 sheep [...]. Now then, it's been four year[s s]ince they would give (any). The servants o[f the king] have dispersed [the sheep. ....] (15) The king, my lord, [commanded]: "[The ...] shall provide these sheep [...]," (but) the [...] are assigning [...] to the prefect and giving [the sheep]. (r 5) Now (it is) the second year (that) Raṣappa and Arzuhina refuse to give the tribute sheep. [I have] three times [written] to the king, my lord [......]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ [mda-di-i] / ⸢lu šul⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / dAG [dAMAR].⸢UTU⸣ a-[na LUGAL EN-ia] / lik-ru-[bu] ⸢de?⸣-e-[nu] / AD-ka [ip]-ta-[ra-as?] / 10 lim UDU-MEŠ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] / MU.AN.NA ⸢pa⸣-[ni-tu] / LUGAL ú-[x x x x] / ú-ma-a ⸢an⸣-[nu]-⸢rig⸣ / 04 MU.AN.NA-[MEŠ TA] ⸢É⸣ / i-da-⸢nu⸣-[ú-ni] / ARAD-MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL UDU-MEŠ] / ip-ta-⸢ṣu⸣ [x x x] / LUGAL be-⸢li⸣ [iq-ṭi-bi] /…
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 P313544.
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/P313544/..
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/P313544/.
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