Position in chronology
SAA 17 056. Report on Merodach-Baladan; Troops to Bab-bitqa (CT 54 446)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] great [...] (2) [...] ... knowing, the army [...] (3) [... I] shall send [the ar]my [to you ...]" (4) [...] to the king, my lord, [...] (5) [... the ar]my to Bab-bit[qi ...] (6) [...] he and the chief [...] (7) [...] are afraid [...] (8) [...] many from [...] (9) [... f]rom Babylon to [me] (10) [...] are defecting. The Babylo[nians ...] (11) [...] Merodach-Baladan from [...] (12) [... are f]leeing. Now [...] (13) [...] of the defeat of the enemy [...] (14) [...] a[s ...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x]-ma ⸢ra-bu⸣-ú ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ mu-di-i e-mu-qu [x x x x] / [x e-mu]-qu a-šap-pa-⸢rak⸣-[ka x x x] / [x x]-⸢ti⸣ a-na LUGAL EN-ía [x x x x] / [x x e]-⸢mu⸣-qu a-na KÁ—bit-[qa x x x] / [x x]-nu šu-ú u LÚ.GAL—[x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣-a-ni-i i-pal-la-ḫu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x] ma-du-tu ul-tu pa-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x] / [x x] ⸢ul⸣-tu TIN.TIR.KI a-na ⸢pa⸣-[ni-ia x x] / [x i-ma]-⸢aq⸣-qu-tu-na…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P240217.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P240217). 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/P240217/.
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