Position in chronology
SAA 13 188. Thirty Talents (Plus a Few Minas) of Silver for Cultic Objects (CT 53 921)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) [To the mother of the kin]g, [my] lor[d], [your servant: NN]. Good [hea]lth to [the mother of the king, my lord. May Sin], Nikkal, [Nusku], Šamaš, Aya, [DN, and DN] bless the king and the mot[her of the kin]g, [my lor]d. (8) I myself, the deputy of the governor, the scribe, the deputy of the treasurer, the temple scribe, the priests of the temples of Harran, together with Šarru-lu-dari, the chariot-driver, weighed out and received 30 talents and [x+]6 minas of silver. (15) [In] Shebat (XI) [...] the month [ ..., we] moved up [......] the works. (18) [...] at the right of the gods (19)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na AMA]—⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-[ia] / [ARAD-ki mx x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] / [lu]-⸢ú⸣ [DI]-⸢mu⸣ [a]-⸢na⸣ [AMA—LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [d30] dNIN.GAL [dPA.TÚG] / ⸢dUTU⸣ dA.A [x x x x x] / a-na LUGAL a-na ⸢AMA—LUGAL⸣ be-[lí-ia] / li-ik-⸢ru⸣-[bu] / a-na 30 GÚ.UN [x x]+06 MA.⸢NA KUG.UD⸣ / ⸢a-na-ku LÚ.02-ú ša LÚ⸣.EN.NAM / LÚ.A.BA LÚ.02-[ú] ša LÚ.IGI.DUB / LÚ.A.BA—É—DINGIR LÚ.SANGA-MEŠ / É—DINGIR-MEŠ ša URU.ḫar-ra-na / ⸢TA⸣…
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 P314330.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314330). 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/P314330/.
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