Position in chronology
SAA 13 158. Why Does the Crown Prince Torment Me So? (ABL 1149)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) [To the crown prince, my lord: your servant, NN.] [Good he]alth [to the crown prince, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk] bless [the crown prince, my lord]. (2) Concerning [what the crown prince, my lord, wrote to me, say]ing: "Why are you here? [Pas]s by and go on to the Inner City" — it is now the second time that the crown prince suddenly writes (like this), (when) it is not time for the sacrifices, and there is no ritual and nothing that would make them send for me hastily. (7) Why the same thing again? The crown prince should have come out so I could have seen his face and health; you…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[lu-u šul]-mu [a-na DUMU—MAN EN-ia dPA dAMAR.UTU] / [a-na DUMU—MAN EN-ia] lik-ru-bu ina UGU [ša DUMU—MAN be-lí] / [iš-pur-a-ni] ⸢ma⸣-a a-na am—mì-ni an-na-ka at-ta / [ma-a] e-[ti]-⸢iq⸣ a-lik a-na URU.ŠÀ—URU an-nu-rig 02-šú / [a]-⸢na⸣ ár-ḫiš DUMU—MAN i-šap-pa-ra la-a si-mìn UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ / ⸢la*⸣-a dul-lu la me-me-e-ni ša ú-dal-làḫ-u-ni / i-šap-par-ú-ni-ni a-na am—mì-i-ni / is-se-niš tu-ú-ra…
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 P334756.
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/P334756/..
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/P334756/.
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