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SAA 13 144. Report of a Prophecy (CT 53 969)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Nabû-reši-išši. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Ištar, Nabû, and Marduk let the king, my lord, live 100 years. (10) The sacrifices of the king [...] have been performed on the [14]th [day], the 16th, [the 18th], the 20th [......] (Break) (r 2) [... ] will go (r 3) [...] ... (r 4) [...] ... [...] (r 5) [...] within [...] (r 6) ... [...] (r 7) she prophesied: "Why did you give the [...]-wood, the grove, and the ... to the Egyptians? Say in the king's presence that they should be given back to me. I will (then) give total abundance [to] his [...]."
Source: 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/P314378/
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Transliteration
a-⸢na⸣ LUGAL ⸢EN-ia⸣ / ARAD-ka md⸢PA—SAG⸣—i-ši / lu-u DI-mu ⸢a-na⸣ LUGAL / EN-ia / aš-šur d15 dPA / ù dAMAR.UTU / 01-me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ / a-na LUGAL EN-ia / lu-u-bal-li-ṭu / ⸢UDU⸣.SISKUR-MEŠ ša LUGAL / [x x]-⸢ru? ep-šá-ni⸣ / [UD 14?]-KÁM UD 16-KÁM / [UD 18?-KÁM] UD 20-KÁM / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-is / [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] / [x x] ⸢il-lak⸣ / [x x]-me-ka-a.a / [x x] za nu? kid? [x] / [x] ina ŠÀ il-[x] / ḫa i?…
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 P314378.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P314378/..
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/P314378/.
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