Position in chronology
SAA 16 089. The House of the Chief Scribe (CT 53 014)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant PN. Good] health to the kin[g, my lord]! (4) [Concerning] the house of Aššur-naṣi[r and] the house of the chief scribe [about which] the king, my lord, ordered me: "Inspect them!" (9) The house of the chief scribe is a tiny house. Even a [do]nkey would not enter there. (Whereas) the house of Aššur-naṣir, a nobleman, is good (but) much repair (must be done) there. (16) The eunuch who was se[n]t (to) the house of Aššur-naṣir has collected all the equipment [there and] pi[led] them [up] in [m]y storehouses and in [m]y bedro[om]. (r 7) [Let] him be told: "[...] (r 8) the [who]le [...] (r 9) [......] (r 10) [... let] them be brought out (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka mx x x x] / [lu-u] DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia] / [ina UGU] É maš-šur—PAB-⸢ir⸣ / [ina UGU] É LÚv.GAL—A.BA / [ša] LUGAL be-lí / ṭè-e-mu iš-kun-ni-ni / ma-a a-mur / É LÚv.GAL—A.BA É qa-lál / ⸢ANŠE⸣.NÍTA-ma ina ŠÀ-bi-šú / la e-rab / É maš-šur—PAB-ir / DUMU—ŠU.SI-MEŠ SIG₅ / bat-qu ma-aʾ-da / ina ŠÀ-bi / LÚv.SAG ša šap-⸢ru?-ni⸣ / É maš-šur—⸢PAB-ir⸣ / a-nu-⸢tu⸣ am—mar…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P313429.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313429). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. & Van Buylaere, G. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. SAA 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa16/P313429/.
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