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SAA 13 174. Let Me Have the Gems So I Can Finish My Work (ABL 0498)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 13(1) To the king, my lord: your servant, Rašil. Good health to the king, my lord. May Marduk and Zarpanitu bless the king, my lord. (5) Your temples are well. I have made the statues which the king, my lord, ordered. I have made the crown of Anu which the king, my lord, ordered. (Both) the sun disks about which I spoke to the king and the ...-emblems have been made. (9) About what I said to the king, my lord: "The 12 minas of gold which came in to me as gifts for Bel I have made into rosettes and ...-ornaments for Zarpanitu." I will now fashion the seals which the king, my lord, gave me. The…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 13 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia ARAD-ka mTUK-ši—DINGIR / lu-ú šul-mu a-na MAN be-lí-ía / dAMAR.UTU ù dzar-pa-ni-tum / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía lik-ru-bu / šul-mu a-na É—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka / ALAM-MEŠ šá LUGAL U-a iq-ba-a e-te-pu-uš / AGA da-nim šá LUGAL be-lí-a iq-ba-a DÙ-uš / AŠ.ME-MEŠ šá a-na LUGAL aq-bu-ú / u a-šá-an-na-nu ep-šú šá ana LUGAL U-ia / aq-bu-ú um-ma 12 MA.NA KUG.GI / šá a-na šul-ma-na-a-ti a-na dEN /…
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 P237841.
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/P237841/..
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/P237841/.
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