SAA 13 076. Report to the Queen Mother about a Ritual (ABL 0368)[via saao/saa13]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the queen mother, my 'lord': your servant, Nergal-šarrani. Good health to the queen mother, my 'lord.' May Nabû and Marduk bless the queen mother, my 'lord.' May Tašmetu, whom you revere, take your hands. May you see 1,000 years of kingship for Esarhaddon. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | (10) As for what the queen mother, my 'lord,' wrote to me, saying: "What is going into the ritual?" — | |
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | (12) These are its constituents: sweet-scented oil, wax, sweet-scented fragrance, myrrh, cannabis, and ṣadīdu-aromatic. [I will] perform it [for a]ll [the ... th]at the queen mother com[manded]. | |
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | UD [x-KÁM UDU].⸢SISKUR⸣-MEŠ šal-ma-⸢a⸣-te | (r 3) [On the xth] day, they will perform the whole-offerings: one ox, two white sheep, and a duck. |
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) Damqaya, the maid-servant of the queen mother, will not be able to participate in the ritual. (Accordingly,) whomever the queen mother, my 'lord,' designates should open the basket and perform the ritual. | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 |
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/P334244/.