Position in chronology
SAA 01 004. On Shirking the King’s Work (CT 53 834)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) ...] stay [in ......]. Now he has do[ne the work (incumbent) up]on you plus the work ass[ignment that was ... to] your [...]; [your servants tra]ded [the work ass]ignment with 21 [...] and shirked doing the work. (7) [You wrote me] that in addition to the 500 [logs of ...] and the 500 of [..., another ...] have been piled up on the river bank. [That's exactly] why the governor of Til-Barsip did [...]! I (gave the order): "These [should g]o to [...] Aššur-šarru-uṣur plus the [...] who are with him, and [...] the l[ogs into ...] of 40 (pieces) each." To no avail; [they…
Source: Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P314243/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]-ba ⸢i-ti⸣-[iz] / [x x x x]-⸢bi⸣ an-nu-⸢rig⸣ / [dul-lu ša ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-ka a-du ⸢pil⸣-[ki] / [ša x x x x]-ka-ni e-⸢ta⸣-[pa-áš] / [x x pi]-⸢il⸣-ku TAv 21 [x x] / [x ú-sa]-⸢pi-lu*⸣ dul-lu ⸢la e⸣-[pu-šu] / [ta-sap-ra] ma-a ina UGU 05 me [GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ] / [x x x] ina UGU 05-me-ma ša [x x] / [x x x ina] ⸢UGU*⸣ ÍD ⸢kar-ru⸣ ina UGU [an-nim-ma?] / [LÚv].EN.NAM ša URU.tar-bu-si-bi / [x x]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P314243.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314243). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P314243/.
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