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SAA 13 177. Send Their Carpenters (ABL 0475)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, [Rašil]. May Nabû and Ma[rduk] bless [the king], my lord. (5) Concerning Nadin-ahi and Ina-qibi-Bel, his brother, the two clergymen about whom the king, my lord, issued an order to me, saying: "Send their carpenters (here)" — I have now sent them to the king, my lord.
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/P237235/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka m[TUK-ši—DINGIR] / dAG u d⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU a-na LUGAL] / EN-ía lik-ru-bu / a-na UGU mSUM-na—ŠEŠ / ù mina—qí-bi—dEN PAB-šú / LÚ.TU—É ki-lal*-le-e / šá LUGAL EN-a ṭè-e-mu / iš-kun-an-ni / um-ma LÚ.NAGAR-MEŠ-šú-nu / šup-ra-áš-šú-nu-ti / a-du-ú a-na LUGAL / EN-ía al-tap-ra-šú-nu-ti
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 P237235.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237235). 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/P237235/.
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