Position in chronology
SAA 01 020. Cattle for Troops (CT 53 636)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (2) oxen, sh[eep and ......] (3) on my side [......] (4) living there [......] (5) in your district [......] (6) "Should it be the wish of [......] (7) to bring [......], (8) let [me send] troops [......], (9) all their days [......]." (10) Th[ese] troops of yours (r 1) which [......] on my side (r 2) oxen, sheep and [......], (r 3) should have collected [......] (r 4) and brought to me [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / GUD-MEŠ ⸢UDU⸣-[MEŠ x x x x x] / in₆-ni-du-ú-[a x x x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi kam-mu-⸢su⸣ [x x x x] / ina ŠÀ na-gi-ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ma-a lu ŠÀ-bi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / a-na ú-ba-a-⸢li⸣ [x x x x] / LÚv.e-mu-qi lu [x x x] / am—mar UD-me-šú-nu ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / LÚv.e-mu-qi-ka ḫa-[an-nu-te] / ša in₆-ni-du-ú-a a-[x x x x] / GUD-MEŠ UDU-MEŠ ù [x x x x] / lu ik-ri-ku-u-ni [x x x x x] / lu na-ṣu-u-ni [x x x x x] / an-[x x x x x x x x x] / i-su-[x x 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 P314048.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314048). 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/P314048/.
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