Position in chronology
SAA 17 043. Inspection of Work on Temples all over Babylonia (ABL 0516)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-iddina: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: (6) Concerning the writing-board of the temples, of which the king wrote to me: "Send the rest of the work and the [remain]ing writing-boards here through Šarru-amuranni!" — (12) I have now examined (all the temples) from Nemed-Laguda to Šasanaku and have written the writing-boards. As the king commanded, I shall send them to the king, my lord, via Šarru-amuranni. (17) After I had examined the (temples) from Zabban to Sippar in the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia ARAD-ka / mdEN—SUM-na a-na di-na-an / LUGAL be-lí-ia lul-lik dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia-a-ma / áš-⸢šú* GIŠ*.LE*.U₅*.UM*⸣ šá É.KUR-MEŠ / šá LUGAL iš-pu-ra um-ma ri-iḫ-ti / ⸢pa*⸣-aʾ-lu ù* GIŠ.LE.U₅.UM-MEŠ / ⸢ri⸣-[ḫe-e]-tu ina ŠU.2 m*LUGAL—a-mur-an-ni / šu-bi-la en-na a-du-ú ul-tu / UŠ*—dla-gu-du.KI a-di / ša-sa*-na-ku.KI…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P237075.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237075). source
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/P237075/.
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