Position in chronology
SAA 17 129. Organising the Cult of Eanna (ABL 1200)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) Tablet of Sîn-duri to the king, his lord. The guard of Eanna and the temples of your gods are well. (5) Concerning [the ...] of the Lady of Reš [...] and the [...]s of Nanaya of which the king wrote: "Let [them] be in[stituted]" — (8) [...] the king for ever [...] (9) [...] well-being [...] (10) [...] with [...] (11) [...] they climb up [...] (12) [... they] bless [...] (13) [...] with [...] (14) I shall write everywhere as follows: "[If] you [... silver] and gold without the king's (permission) and giv[e out] prebends [...], you shall [...] (Break) (r 1) without [the king('s permission)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ṭup-pi md30—BÀD / a-na LUGAL be-lí-šú / a-na ma-aṣ-ṣar-ti šá É.AN.NA / a-⸢na⸣ É—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka šul-mu / ⸢áš⸣-[šú x x] šá dGAŠAN šá SAG / [x x x]-MEŠ šá dna-na-a [x] / [šá LUGAL iš]-pu-ra um-ma liš-šá-[kin] / [x x x] LUGAL a-na da*-ri UD*-[me] / [x x x] TIN* ZI-MEŠ* [x x x x x] / [x x x] it-ti [x x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢il⸣-lu*-ú* [x x x x] / [x x x] i-kar-⸢ra⸣-[bu x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x] it-ti [x x x x x]…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P236913.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P236913/..
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P236913/.
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