Position in chronology
SAA 13 172. We Have Not Been Selling Sheep (CT 53 876)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(Obverse and beginning of reverse too fragmentary to translate) (r 2) When [......] (r 3) saying: "How many [have you sold] for [silver]? [These are] sheep of [...]." (r 5) The shepherds of regular sheep-offerings told them a[s follows]: "We have not sold [a single sheep] for silver, (nor) [...] from [...]. In truth, we supply (sheep) of our own as food for Bel. This [year], either the [...] sheep or the tamītu-sheep which were presented t[o the ... o]f Bel [...]." (r 13) Concerning the ox which [......] (r 14) [... we shall] perform [......] (r 15) [...] ox [......] (Break) (e. 1) [...] Since he has not brought it [...]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ni-[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / is-[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / di-[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢ki⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢EN?⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] / bé-et ⸢i-x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x] / ma-a ki ma-ṣi ina ŠÀ [KUG.UD ta-di-na] / ma-a UDU-MEŠ-im-ma ša [x x x x x x] / LÚ.SIPA da-ri-i ⸢ki⸣-[i an-ni-i x x] / iq-ṭi-bu-ni-šú-nu ma-[a UDU me-me-ni] / ina ŠÀ KUG.UD la ni-din…
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 P314285.
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/P314285/..
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/P314285/.
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