SAA 10 096. Affairs of the Aššur Temple (ABL 0043) [from astrologers][via saao/saa10]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Akkullanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) Concerning the constant sheep offering and the regular deliveries to Aššur about which the king, my lord, wrote to his servant: "Who of the magnates have not agreed to give them?" — | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | (8) I was not able to specify (them and thus) did not write to the king, my lord yesterday. (Now then) here are the magnates who have not given the sheep offerings: | |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | (13) The governors of Barhalzi, Raṣappa, Kilizi, Isana, Tillê, Kullania, and Arpadda. All (these) have not given the constant sheep-offering. | |
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | (17) Raṣappa, Barhalzi, Diquqina, the chief of granaries, Dayyan-Adad, Isana, Halzi-atbar, Birtu, Arzuhina, Arbela, Guzana, Šahuppa, Tamnuna, Talmusa. All these have not given the regular deliveries of barley and emmer. | |
| o 1818 | ||
| o 1919 | ||
| o 2020 | ||
| o 2121 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 22b.e. 22 | ||
| b.e. 2323 | ||
| b.e. 2424 | ||
| b.e. 2525 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) Furthermore, concerning the priest of the cook's house, the priest of the confectioner's and the chief baker, about whom the king, my lord, inquired, they were originally shaved. Their story is as follows: The priest of the little cook's house was shaved by Sennacherib, (but) a priest from Nineveh, Aššur-zeru-iddina, denounced him and he was flogged with leather whips. He retained his headgear, (however, since) he had committed no serious crime. | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | (r 11) The father of the (present) priest of the confectioner's house set the (sacrificial) table of Aššur; whereupon he was killed. This one was appointed by your father to take care of the table. He is son of an owner of a headgear; (it is only) due to an oversight (that) he has not been shaved. | |
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| r 1717 | ||
| r 1818 | (r 18) And concerning the chief baker, Sennacherib ap[pointed] him to supervise their 'bread.' Indeed he was shaved and received his headgear in his reign. It is now the eighth year since he died, and his son is at present 'standing with his hair' (expecting to be shaved). | |
| r 1919 | ||
| r 2020 | ||
| r 2121 | ||
| r 2222 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 23r.e. 23 | ||
| r.e. 2424 | ||
| r.e. 2525 | ||
| r.e. 2626 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 | (e. 1) Indeed, in the old times — until the reigns of Sargon and Sennacherib — they were shaved. This was their story; the king, my lord, may act as he prefers. | |
| e. 22 | ||
| e. 33 |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P333995/.