Position in chronology
SAA 13 126. Expropriation of Field, House and People (ABL 0177)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Iddin-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Ištar, Nabû, and Marduk bless the king, my lord. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age. May they firmly establish the throne of the king, my lord, forever. (11) [The foundat]ion of the throne of the ki[ng, my lord], is Ištar of [GN]. [The king], my [l]ord, k[nows it]. (Break) (r 2) [...] [Tomorrow or the d]ay after, the king, my lord, will hear. I will certainly die because of this if (the king) says: "Why didn't you inform me?" (r 6) Urdu-Nabû, the priest,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mid-din—ia / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / aš-šur d15 dAG dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu / ši-bu-tú lit-tu-tu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia lu-šab-bi-iu-u / GIŠ.GU.ZA ša LUGAL EN-a / a-na da-ra-a-te ⸢kun⸣ / lu-ki-in-[nu] / [iš]-⸢di⸣ GIŠ.GU.ZA ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ / [EN-ia] d15 ša ⸢URU⸣.[x x x] / [LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí ⸢ú⸣-[da o?] / [x x x] É tú [x x x] / [x x 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 P334122.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334122). 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/P334122/.
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