Position in chronology
SAA 13 126. Expropriation of Field, House and People (ABL 0177)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Iddin-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Ištar, Nabû, and Marduk bless the king, my lord. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age. May they firmly establish the throne of the king, my lord, forever. (11) [The foundat]ion of the throne of the ki[ng, my lord], is Ištar of [GN]. [The king], my [l]ord, k[nows it]. (Break) (r 2) [...] [Tomorrow or the d]ay after, the king, my lord, will hear. I will certainly die because of this if (the king) says: "Why didn't you inform me?" (r 6) Urdu-Nabû, the priest,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mid-din—ia / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / aš-šur d15 dAG dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu / ši-bu-tú lit-tu-tu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia lu-šab-bi-iu-u / GIŠ.GU.ZA ša LUGAL EN-a / a-na da-ra-a-te ⸢kun⸣ / lu-ki-in-[nu] / [iš]-⸢di⸣ GIŠ.GU.ZA ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ / [EN-ia] d15 ša ⸢URU⸣.[x x x] / [LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí ⸢ú⸣-[da o?] / [x x x] É tú [x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x…
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 P334122.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, 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/P334122/..
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/P334122/.
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