Position in chronology
SAA 17 001. Sending the Son of Balassu to Borsippa (CT 54 241)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (4) [His son] did not as[cend] his father's throne [...] (5) [...] his words: "He was not captured. [NN] (and) his father's house [...]." (6) [...] His son is now held as my hostage in my presence, [and] Balassu has died here. Would you [not] keep the guard of the house of [your] lo[rd], until I sen[d you] the son of your lord? (9) [... as] they sent Hullî back and as they saw [...] (10) [...] in his land, the servants and the [...] (11) were [...], until I [sent] the son of their lord [back to them]. (12) [...] ... a word as follows: "Sh[e ...] (13) [...] his wife is…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x md⸣[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x]-dan-ni ⸢x x⸣ KUR.[x x x x x x x x x x] / [DUMU-šú ina] GIŠ.GU.ZA šá AD-šú ul ú-[šib x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣+[x x x] / [x] ⸢a⸣-mat-su um-ma ul ḫa-bit md[x x]-⸢iq⸣-qa É—AD-šú [x x] / [x] DUMU-šú a-kan-na a-na LÚ.maš-ka-nu-⸢ti⸣ i-na pa-ni-⸢ia⸣ [ka-li] / [ù] mba-laṭ-su a-kan-na-ka mi-i-ti EN.NUN šá…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P239171.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, 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/P239171/..
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P239171/.
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