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SAA 13 028. Report on Gold and Silver Work for the Temple of Sin (ABL 1194)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Beginning destroyed) (1) We weighed out [the gold which] had been reported [in the ... of the] scribe, I split it up item by item, and dispatched it to the king, my lord. (4) We have melted down 23 minas of gold in the agate-standard, including the votive gifts. They will hammer it as thin as the king, my lord, commands. Later, they will use it for gilding. (7) One talent, 19 minas of gold are also in town, (namely) that of the agate in the treasury of Sin, along with all the votive gifts; and the 18 1/6 minas of gold and 21 minas of silver for the guard(ian) of the oxen to be sacrificed…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x LÚ].A.BA ša-ki-nu-u-ni / ni-iḫ-ti-aṭ [ina] ⸢bat⸣-ta-ta-a-<a> up-ta-ri-is / ina UGU LUGAL be-lí-ía a-sa-ap-ra / 23 MA.NA KUG.GI ina ša BABBAR.DIL a-du še-lu-a-ti / nu-ṣi-ii-di ú-ra-qu-qu a-du mì-i-nu / ša LUGAL be-lí i-qab-bu-ni ḫa-ra-ma-ma / i-sa-ki-ru-šú GÚ.UN 19 MA.NA KUG.GI ina URU-ma / ša NA₄.BABBAR.DIL ša ina É—NÍG.GA ša d30 / a-du še-lu-a-ti gab-bu / ù 18 MA.NA 06-su KUG.GI 21…
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 P334784.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334784). 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/P334784/.
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