Position in chronology
SAA 03 018. Epic of Sargon II
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 3(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] ... and the scorpion man [......] (3) [...] Šerua and Ninegal [......] (4) [To] the right and left of the gates burned [......] (5) The king makes a speech, the magn[ates ......] (6) The guard of the river [...] in front of [......] (7) One cavalryman, ...[......] (8) The equipment of another is of [......] (9) His horse is wind [......] (10) He does not [... befo]re the magnates [......] (Break) (r 1) [......]... like ...[......] (r 2) [...] the chassis of the wagon [......] (r 3) [The ...]s of the king occupied the mountain [......] (r 4) He courageously…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]-⸢a-ni⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi u dGÍR.TAB.⸢LÚ⸣.[U₁₈.LU x x] / [x x] dA.EDIN u dNIN.É.[GAL x x x x] / [ina] ⸢im⸣-ni u šu-me-lu šá KÁ-ME šum-mu-⸢u?⸣ [x x x x] / LUGAL dib-bi i-dab-bu-ub LÚ.⸢GAL⸣-[ME x x x] / LÚ.EN.NUN ÍD ina ma-ḫar il-ta-[x x x x] / LÚ.šá—pét-ḫal-lum 01-en LÚ.[x x x x x] / 01-en til-le-e-šú-ma ⸢šá x⸣ [x x x x] / ANŠE.KUR.RA-šú šá-a-ri-ma [x x x x] / [ina]…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian court poetry or literary text, edited by Alasdair Livingstone (SAA 3, 1989). ORACC text P336599.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336599). source
Translation excerpted from Livingstone, A. 1989. Court Poetry and Literary Miscellanea. SAA 3. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa03/P336599/.
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