SAA 13 165. Restoration Work in the Esaggil (CT 53 846)

~665 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314255

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 13

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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] attaching (3) [......] brick courses (4) [......]... (5) [......] of the temple of Marduk (6) [......] they elevated (7) [...] ... the carpenters (8) [...] are open [...]s (9) [...] brick courses (10) [...] ... of the sanctuary on the terrace (Break) (r 2) [......] has been overla[id with ...] (r 3) the [...] of the beams (r 4) [...] are left over.

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

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Transliteration

[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x] ⸢ṣa⸣-batat / [x x x x x] ti-ik-pi / [x x x x x]-me-ni / [x x x x x] ša É—dMES / [x x x x x] ú-se-li-ú / [x x x x]-ru LÚ.NAGAR-MEŠ / [x x x x]-tú? pa-tu-ú-te šú-nu / [x x x x] ti-ik-pi / [x x x x]-qar ša ⸢É tam?-le?-e⸣ / [x x x x]-⸢ni⸣-a-⸢te⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ aḫ-za-⸢at?⸣ [x] / [x x x]-pi ša GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ / [x x x] re-e-ḫu

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 P314255.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314255). 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/P314255/.

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