Position in chronology
SAA 16 090. Outriders for Brick Masons (CT 53 150)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... about whom the king, my lord, wro]te to me: "[......] — I hear and obey. (4) Let one of the eunuchs come out and give them orders. And regarding the brick masons, there are many outriders available: the outriders from Ub[...], the outriders of the Pa[lace], (and) the exempt [...]. If it is acceptable to the [king, my lord] (Break) (r 2) let them come [...], (r 3) lest they will tell the king, [my] lord, in the autumn, in Tishri (VII): "The outr[iders] have not come in." (r 7) May the king command Aššur-naṣir and Danî that they station in the k[ing] my lord's presence the bodyguards who went to them last year. May the king [giv]e them orders to go (and) [fet]ch them [...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x ša LUGAL be-lí iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni / [ma-a x x x x x]-MEŠ-ni / [x x a]-⸢na?-ku as-sa⸣-nam-me / 01-en LÚv.SAG-MEŠ lu-ṣi-a / ṭè-e-mu liš-kun-šú-nu / ù ina UGU LÚ.ú-ra-si / LÚ.kal-lap qur-bu / LÚ.kal-lap ma-aʾ-⸢da⸣ / LÚ.kal-lap URU.ub-[x] / LÚ.kal-lap ša É.[GAL] / LÚ.zu-⸢ku⸣ [x] / šum-ma ma-ḫi-ir ina IGI [LUGAL EN-ía] / ú-⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P313565.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313565). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. & Van Buylaere, G. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. SAA 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa16/P313565/.
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