Position in chronology
SAA 13 128. Theft of Temple Property (ABL 0493)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Aššur-reṣuwa, priest of Ninurta. Good health to the king, my lord. May Bel, Aššur, and Ninurta bless the king, my lord. May they give to the king, my lord, long days, everlasting years, long life, and the attainment of all he strives for. (11) In the time of the father of the king, my lord, the clergy of the temple of Ninurta cut off 3 fingers (worth) of golden appendages from the beams of gold at the head of Ninurta. I turned in a report to the father of the king, my lord. All the men [went] to meet [...]. (b.e. 20) (Break) (r 2) [...] inside [......]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / LÚ.SANGA ša dMAŠ / lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / dBE aš-šur dMAŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ía / lik-ru-bu / UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-<MEŠ> MU.AN.NA-MEŠ / da-ra-a-te la-bur TI.LA / ṣa-mur ka-šá-du / a-na LUGAL EN-ía li-di-nu / ina ŠÀ AD-šú ša LUGAL EN-ía / LÚ.TU—É ša É—dMAŠ / TAv ŠÀ GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ ša KUG.GI / ša SAG dMAŠ 03 ŠU.SI / mu-še-ṣi-iʾ KUG.GI ib-ta-at-qu / ṭè-e-mu ina…
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 P334340.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334340). 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/P334340/.
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