Position in chronology
SAA 13 047. Passage of Rites (CT 53 906)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Beginning destroyed) (2) [They ham]mered the [...] thin and re-[did it]. (3) [......] the wing of [...] (4) [which ...] they raised (5) [......] they removed again (6) [......] saying: "The old one wasn't fastened." (7) [...] They hammered the gold thin and re-did it. (8) [...] ... under my arms [...] (9) [They ...ed the image] of the king inside the loop of Nikkal, as well as the gold cast. (r 1) [He says] that they have now m[ade it] of lead and mounted it with [go]ld. They have [set] aside the old [rit]es of Nikkal and instituted new ones. [He says] the arm of Tambaya is [...]. I tore off…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x] ú [x x] / [x x x x ur-ta]-ki-qu ⸢e⸣-[tap-šú] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ gap-pi ša ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x x]-bi us-se-lu-ni / [x x x x x] us-saḫ-ḫi-ru ú-tal-li-u / [x x x x x x x] ma-a pa-ni-u ⸢la? ka⸣-ṣir / [x x x x] ⸢KUG.GI⸣ [ur]-ta-ki-qu e-tap-šú / [x x x]-u-ni KI.TA ⸢Á.2⸣-ia ⸢x x-pi⸣ / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL šá ŠÀ kip-pi-ti ⸢ša dNIN⸣.GAL / [x x]-ni u šip-ku ša KUG.⸢GI⸣ [x x]-u / [ma]-a…
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 P314315.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314315). 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/P314315/.
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