Position in chronology
SAA 13 076. Report to the Queen Mother about a Ritual (ABL 0368)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the queen mother, my 'lord': your servant, Nergal-šarrani. Good health to the queen mother, my 'lord.' May Nabû and Marduk bless the queen mother, my 'lord.' May Tašmetu, whom you revere, take your hands. May you see 1,000 years of kingship for Esarhaddon. (10) As for what the queen mother, my 'lord,' wrote to me, saying: "What is going into the ritual?" — (12) These are its constituents: sweet-scented oil, wax, sweet-scented fragrance, myrrh, cannabis, and ṣadīdu-aromatic. [I will] perform it [for a]ll [the ... th]at the queen mother com[manded]. (r 3) [On the xth] day, they will…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na AMA—LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ki mdU.GUR—MAN-an-ni / lu-u DI-mu a-na AMA—MAN EN-ía / dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na AMA—LUGAL EN-ía lik-ru-bu / dtaš-me-tum ša tap-laḫ-i-ši-i-ni / ŠU.2-ki lu ta-aṣ-bat / 01 lim MU.AN.NA-MEŠ LUGAL-u-tú / ša mdaš-šur—PAB—AŠ du-ug-li / ina UGU ša AMA—MAN be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a mi-i-nu ina ŠÀ dul-li il-lak / Ì.GIŠ DÙG.GA GAB*.LÀL ŠEM.ḪI.<A>-MEŠ DÙG.GA-MEŠ / ŠEM.ŠEŠ…
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 P334244.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334244). 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/P334244/.
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