SAA 17 168. Cohort Commander Reports on Chaldean Matters (CT 54 135)

~710 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238486

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 17

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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN], the coh[ort] commander. [Say to the ki]ng, my lord: (4) [As to what the king, my lord], wrote: (5) "[......] (6) [...] to [...] (7) [...] you move up [...]" (8) [...] Now to [...] (9) [...] if [...] (10) [... n]ews of [...] (11) [...] to [...] (Break) (20) [...] people [...] (21) [...] repo[rt ...] (22) [......] (23) according to [...] (24) palace matter [...] (25) for the month Sivan (III) [...] (26) in Chaldea [...] (27) great country to [...] (28) [...] with the overseer [...] (29) they have given [...] (30) [...] the k[in]g [my] lo[rd ...] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[a-na LUGAL x x be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka mx x x] ⸢LÚ⸣.GAL—ki-[ṣir] / [um-ma-a a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ia-a-⸢ma⸣ / [šá LUGAL be-lí-a] iš-pu-ra um-⸢ma⸣ / [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x] a-na ⸢sik⸣-[x x x x] / [x x x x] tu-šel-⸢la⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] en-na a-na [x x x x] / [x x x x]-ú ki-i ⸢it⸣-[x x x x] / [x x x x ṭè]-e-mu šá LÚ.[x x x x] / [x x x x x x] a-na [x x x x x] / [x x x x x x]…

Scholarly note

Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P238486.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238486). 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/P238486/.

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