Position in chronology
SAA 10 107. Corruption in the Temple of Aššur (ABL 0429) [from astrologers]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 10(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Akkullanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! (6) The golden plate which disappeared from the Aššur temple has been seen in the hands of the stonecutter Qurdî-Nergal. Now the gold was for his eyes (i.e., meant for him). I am going to question the scribe now. (r 1) Let the king write again, and let them question him. The king should not write to Ṭab-šar-Sin, (for) he has been bribed by him. Instead let them question him as well: "To whom have you given bribes? Make up for the gold!" (r.e. 12) The king should not let this pass over in silence. Let them at the same time question (all those) who have enjoyed gifts at the expense of the Aššur temple.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka mak-kul-la-nu / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL / EN-ía dPA u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL EN-ía lik-ru-bu / le-ʾu-u ša KUG.GI / ša TAv É—aš-šur ZÁḪ-u-ni / ina ŠU.2 mqur-di—U.GUR / LÚ.BUR.GUL it-ta-mar / an-nu-rig KUG.GI / a-na IGI.2-MEŠ-šú / ù LÚ.A.BA / an-nu-rig / a-šá-ʾa-al / LUGAL tu*-ú*-⸢ra*⸣ / liš-pu-ra liš-ú-lu-šú / a-na mDÙG—IM—d30 / LUGAL lu la i-šap-pa-ra / šul-ma-nu TAv…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334295.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334295). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334295/.
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