Position in chronology
SAA 13 049. (no title)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Beginning destroyed) (2) in [......] (3) N[ow ...] (r 1) he/they ... [...] (r 2) Aššur will come to the temple ... [...] (r 4) [...] ... [...] (r 5) [...] ... [...] (r 6) [W]ha[t ...] (r 7) [which the k]ing, [my] lord [...] (Remainder destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] / ina [x x x x x] / an-⸢nu⸣-[rig x x x] / i-sa-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / daš-šur ina É ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ⸢il⸣-la-[ka x x] / [x]+⸢x⸣ ri [x x x] / [x x] ni pa [x x x] / [mi]-⸢i-nu⸣ [x x x] / [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-⸢lí⸣ [x x] / [x x x x x x x x x]
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 P336735.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336735). 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/P336735/.
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