Position in chronology
SAA 13 127. The Statues Require Gold, Copper and Lapis Lazuli (ABL 0531)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Nabû-bani-ahhe. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. (5) The gold statue is now finished. The gold for the copper statue has arrived. Let whomever the king, my lord, commands, come and weigh it out, so we can apply it. (11) The ... with which they weigh(ed) the gold are in the treasury, a sealed building. When whomever the ki[ng, my lord], is going to send [comes], let him bring a seal(ed order) with him, and we[igh out] the gold [for the statue] with it. (r 3) [They] are ask[ing me] about the lapis lazuli. I…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—DÙ—PAB-MEŠ / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / dPA dMES a-na LUGAL EN-ia / lik-ru-bu an-nu-rig / ṣal-mu ša KUG.GI ga-am-mur / KUG.GI ša ṣal-me ša URUDU / ⸢ka*⸣-ši-di man-nu ša LUGAL be-lí / i-qa-bu-u-ni lil-li-ka / li-ḫi-ṭi ni-iš-me-di / kaš-šad-ú-tú ša KUG.GI / ina ŠÀ-bi i-ḫi-ṭu-u-ni / ina na*-kan*-te É—un-qi / ki-i man-nu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí] / i-šap-par-an-[ni…
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 P334362.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334362). 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/P334362/.
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