Position in chronology
SAA 17 189. Fragment Referring to a Carrier Pigeon (CT 54 270)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (1) [May ... my lord not] forsake us, [may he ...] us! (3) The house which my lord [...], may he hold (it) back! (4) The bird [which] they sent [t]o the king, [may my lord not] eat it! (7) I have fastened [...] (Break) (r 2) [......] comes out (r 3) [...] I have no prebend, (r 4) I have [no (...)] boat. (r 5) I am but [...], (r 6) [may ... my lord not] forsake me! (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x be-lí la ú]-maš-⸢šar-an⸣-na-šú / [x x x x]-an-na-šú / [x x x x] ⸢É?⸣ šá be-lí / [x x x x] lik-li iṣ-ṣur-tú / [šá a-na] ⸢UGU?⸣ LUGAL iš-pu-ru-nu / [be-lí la] ⸢ik⸣-kal-ši / [x x x x] uṣ-ṣa-bit / [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢ú⸣-ṣa-[a] / [x x x] ⸢la⸣-a GIŠ.ŠUB.⸢BA⸣-a / [la-a o?] ⸢GIŠ⸣.MÁ-a / [x x x x]-⸢ma⸣ a-na-ku / [x x be-lí la] ú-maš-šar-an-ni
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P239286.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P239286). 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/P239286/.
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