Position in chronology
SAA 13 072. Burnt Offerings to Heavenly Bodies (ABL 0648)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant, Nergal-šarran]i. [Good health to the kin]g, [my lord. May Nabû] and Marduk [bless the king], my [lord]. (6) [Concern]ing the stars [about which the king wrote to] me, [(saying): "Before] Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Sin, Šamaš, Bel-matati, Sirius, Antares, Belet-balaṭi, the Pleiades, and Išum — before these gods let them make burnt offerings" — They should at the same time make small ones before Nergal, [be]cause of [...]. (r 11) [Tomo]rrow, [in the e]venin[g, ......]. (r 12) (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mdU.GUR—MAN-an]-⸢ni⸣ / [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ / [EN-ia dAG u d]AMAR.UTU / [a-na LUGAL EN]-ia / [lik-ru-bu ina] ⸢UGU⸣ MUL-MEŠ / [ša LUGAL iš-pur-an]-ni / [ina IGI] MUL.SAG.ME.GAR / MUL.dil-bat MUL.UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ / MUL.UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD / MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu / d30 dUTU / dEN—KUR.KUR / MUL.GAG.SI.SÁ / MUL.BIL.GI / MUL.be-lit—TI.LA / MUL.MUL d07.BI / di-šum / ina IGI…
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 P334449.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334449). 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/P334449/.
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