SAA 13 159. We Have Started Work on the Ritual Bath (CT 53 193)

~665 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313608

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 13

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [I will f]inis[h the ... i]n a favorable [...]. (As to) the ritual about which the king, my lord, [questio]ned him, I am expecting the king [a]t the ritual bath in the month Iyyar (II). We have s[tarted work o]n it. (r 2) [In] the house of the [...]-official is a [...] for the lap [of N]abû 2 cubits [long and x] cubits wide. (r 6) [... a w]riting board [...] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x ú]-⸢ga⸣-am-⸢mar⸣ / [x x] ⸢UGU⸣ da-mu-qi / [x x x] dul-lu ša LUGAL be-lí / [iš?-ʾa?]-⸢lu?⸣-šu-ni ina ITI.GUD / [a]-na ri-im-ki a-na IGI LUGAL / ⸢a⸣-da-gal a-⸢ḫi-ni⸣ / [ina] UGU-ḫi nu-⸢ta⸣-[mì-di] / [ina] ⸢É⸣ ša LÚv.⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x] ša bur-ki / [ša d]PA 02 ina 01 KÙŠ / [GÍD.DA x ina 01] KÙŠ DAGAL / [x x x] ⸢le?⸣-ʾu-u

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 P313608.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313608). 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/P313608/.

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