SAA 17 174. Dur-Yakin in Disrepair (CT 54 030)

~710 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238098

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 17

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (2) he brought them here [...] (3) find out the details and write [...] (4) "He says [...] (5) "All my towns [...] (6) he has let the fortress of Yaki[n ...] fall into disrepair. One [...] upon the other [...] (9) in hunger [...] (10) The king of Babyl[on ...] (11) (Break) (r 2) [...] seized [...] (r 3) One [...] of the king of Assyr[ia ...] (r 4) [...] the town Maruru has said: "I shall go to the fortress of Ya[kin]." Earlier the town wall of the fortress [of Yakin] was 300 cubits times 200 cubits (in a rectangle). (r 10) As to the harvests of which the king wrote: "Let workers go out (and) reap (them)" (Break) (e. 1) [I keep] the guard of the king, my lor[d].

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

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Transliteration

[x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]-ta / i-bu-kaš-šú-nu-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ḫur-ṣa-am-ma šup-ra-am-[ma] / um-ma šú-ú i-qab-bi [um-ma] / URU-MEŠ-ia gab-bi [x x] / BÀD—šá—mia-ki-⸢nu⸣ / ul-te-gi-ma 01-en [x x] / UGU šá-ni-ia ⸢x x⸣ [x] / ina bu-bu-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ⸢LUGAL⸣ TIN.TIR.⸢KI⸣ [x x x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢bu⸣ bi ⸢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 P238098.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238098). 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/P238098/.

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