Position in chronology
SAA 13 045. The Priest of Ea-Šarru Visits the Aššur Temple (ABL 0555)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Beginning destroyed) (1) "Let [...] be [...]ed from Ešar[ra]!" (2) I confirmed the king's order, and gave (what was due) to the king. Now then, Nergal-belu-uṣur, the chief cook, can report on me. The king's order is now fixed in my mouth, and I keep the king's treaty. (9) Binunî, the priest of Ea-šarru, stands in the middle of the Aššur temple, and says to the chariot knight of Aššur: "Why does a chariot knight [...] the chariots [in thi]s way? [If] within 10 days I have not destroyed your [...] from the temple of Aššur — what else?" (r 3) Let the king ask (about it). A young man who caught…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x TA?⸣ É*.ŠÁR.[RA] / ⸢lu x⸣+[x]-⸢te⸣-te a-bat LUGAL / uk-te-en a-na LUGAL a-ti-din / an-nu-rig mdMAŠ.MAŠ—EN—PAB / LÚ.GAL—MU EN—ṭè-me-ia / ú-ma-a a-bat LUGAL kun-tú / ina pi-ia EN—a-de-e / ša LUGAL a-na-ku / mbi-nu-ni-i LÚv.SANGA šá d60—MAN / ina qab-si É—daš-šur / i-za-az a-na LÚv.DUMU—SIG₅ / ša aš-šur ma-a GIŠ.GIGIR-MEŠ / a-na mì-ni LÚv.DUMU—SIG₅ / [a-ki] ⸢an?⸣-ni-ma / [ma-a šum?-ma?]…
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 P334380.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334380). 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/P334380/.
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