Position in chronology
SAA 13 180. The Statue of Marduk is Coming, They Say (CT 54 395)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Beginning broken away) (r 3) [......] when he/they returned [......] (r 4) [......] they did [......] (r 5) [...] let [the ki]ng, my lord, identi[fy ......] (r 6) [...] will n[ot] listen and [......] (r 7) [......] are aware ... [..] (r 8) [He ...] and [...] of the feet of [...] (r 9) [Wh]en [...] came, he kept retreating. In the face of [an uprising and] revolt of the people [...] did not go [bef]ore you. (r 12) [Now] they are speaking [abou]t the statue of Marduk, [saying: "The statue] is coming." Whatever he says is gossip for the city. (r 14) [......] and now in the tents (r 15) [......] his gods will [...] (Rest broken away)
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 x x x]+⸢x x⸣ nu ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x ki⸣-i i-tu-ru ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-pu-šú [x x x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢LUGAL EN-a⸣ lu-ma-⸢as⸣-[si x x x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢ul⸣ i-šem-mi-ma [x x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-e lam-du si-⸢ma⸣-[x] ⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x x x]-li-ma ina GÌR.2 ⸢x⸣+[x] x [x] / [x x x x ki]-i il-li-ka it-tas-si ina pa-na-⸢at⸣ /…
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 P240243.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P240243). 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/P240243/.
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