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SAA 13 178. Report to Esarhaddon on Recent Events in Babylonia (BBEA)
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High confidence(1) To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Šuma-iddin. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king of the lands, my lord. (3) I was coming to the king, my lord, (but) when Mar-Issar came saying: "I will inscribe the pedestals" — as far as he was concerned there was nothing worth looking at. (So) I was delayed in his presence. As soon as he has finished with me here, I will come and kiss the feet of the king, my lord. (10) The statues of the king which Mar-Issar brought here, saying: "Inspect (them), and let the one which is perfect stand" — when the scholars and I, (all) servants of the king,…
Source: 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/P336737/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR EN-ía ARAD-ka mMU—SUM-na / dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR EN-ía lik-ru-bu / a-na pa-an LUGAL EN-ía al-la-ka / mDUMU—d15 ki-i il-li-ka / um-ma GIŠ.ki-gal-la-a-nu a-šaṭ-ṭar / mìm-ma šá it-ti-šú a-na a-ma-ru ṭa-a-bu ia-aʾ-nu / ina pa-ni-šu at-te-mir-ka / a-di ina pa-ni-ía ú-qat-tu-ú? / al-la-kam-ma GÌR.2 šá LUGAL EN-ía a-ni-šiq / ALAM-MEŠ šá LUGAL šá mDUMU—d15 iš-šá-a / um-ma…
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 P336737.
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/P336737/..
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/P336737/.
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