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SAA 10 368. Divine Statue for Esaggil; Construction Works in Akkad (CT 53 106) [miscellaneous]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant [Mar-Issar]. Good health to the king, my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk] bless the king, my lord! May [the great gods] bestow [long] days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! (5) The work on the god [...]... has be[gun]; Šarrahitu is completed. The [...] of the king, my lord, and Belet ekalli [are] not [finished]. We [are] work[ing] on Zababa. Uraš, Eragal and Lugal[marada] are in the hands of the masters. All the [......] which is being done in Esag[gil ......] (Break) (r 4) They are transporting asphalt to A[kk]ad from the country of I[tu'u]; and…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313521/
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Transliteration
⸢a-na⸣ LUGAL EN-ía ARAD-ka [mDUMU—d15] / lu-u DI-mu a-na MAN EN-ía [dPA u dAMAR.UTU] / a-na MAN EN-ía lik-ru-bu UD-⸢me⸣ [ar-ku-te] / ṭu-ub UZU ù ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi [DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ] / a-na MAN EN-ía liš-ru-ku dul-lu ⸢ša⸣ / d⸢x⸣.IB*.KÀD-an-ni-e re-e-[šú it-ta-ṣu] / d⸢šar⸣-ra-ḫi-i-ti ⸢ga⸣-mir ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ša MAN EN-ía ⸢d⸣NIN.⸢É⸣.GAL la [ga-am-ru] / a-ni-nu ⸢dul-lu ša⸣ dZA.BA₄.BA₄ [né-ep-pa-áš] /…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313521.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313521). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313521/.
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