Position in chronology
SAA 13 184. Fragment Mentioning Rašil (ABL 0861)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant, NN]. G[ood health t]o the king, [my] lord. May Marduk and Zarpanitu bless the king, my lord. (6) The order came straight from the king, my lord's mouth: "Rašil [will give you] the wooden [...]." Until no[w] no one has issued an order, and he has not given (any) to me. (r 1) May the king, my lord, not [forsake me]! Let the king, my lord, [send] a royal b[odyguard ...] outs[ide ...] (and) [let] the king, my lord, [...] me. (r 6) Now the ki[ng], my [lo]rd, raised me to heaven. Why, (then), from before the feet [of the king], my lord, [......]. (r 10) (Break) (e. 1) If I [cannot see] the face of the king, my lord, why should I live?
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mx x x] / lu-[u DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ MAN EN-[ia] / dAMAR.UTU dzar-pa-ni-tum / a-na LUGAL EN-ía lik-ru-bu / TAv pi-i ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ / EN-ía it-tu-⸢ṣi*⸣ / ma-a GIŠ.za-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / mTUK-ši—DINGIR [id-da-nak-ka] / a-da-ka-⸢an⸣-[ni] / me-me-ni ⸢ṭè?⸣-[e-mu] / la iš-kun / la id-di-na / LUGAL be-lí / lu? la ⸢ú⸣-[ra-man-ni] / LÚv.⸢qur⸣-[bu-ti liš-pu-ra] / qa-an-[ni x x x] / LUGAL be-lí…
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 P334593.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334593). 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/P334593/.
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