SAA 17 121. To the Vizier: Coming to the review (ABL 0640)

~710 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238718

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 17

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) May our lord [quickly] write [us] that he is in go[od health and] hap[py]! (5) I and Aqar-Bel-lumur are now coming to the review. (9) (As to) the silver sword, of which I talked with my lord and my lord told me: "It will be made" — may my lord make a [beauti]ful silver sword and keep it for me.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

⸢šu-lum⸣ [ù] / ṭu-ub [ŠÀ-bi] / šá be-lí-i-ni [ḫa-an-ṭiš] / liš-pu-ra-an-[na-a-šú] / a-du-ú a-na-⸢ku⸣ / u mKAL*—dEN—lu-mur / a-na ma-šar-ti / ni-il-la-ka / ⸢GÍR⸣ KUG.UD šá a-na be-lí-ía / ⸢aq⸣-bu-ú u be-lí / ⸢iq⸣-ba-a um-⸢ma⸣ / ⸢ip*⸣-pu-šú GÍR KUG.UD / [bab-ba]-⸢nu⸣-ú be-lí / li-pu-uš-ma / li-ik-la-a

Scholarly note

Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P238718.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238718). 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/P238718/.

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