SAA 01 024. Summoning Holders of Government Property (CT 53 245)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313660

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 1

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (4) "The recipients of iškāru assignments should immediately come up here and enter the city of [...] after Zabbua, quickly! The [...] should likewise ... and come up. Let them make it clear to the mayor and the city overseer that they have to bring forth the ... and the recipients of iškāru assignments [... (Break) (r 6) ...] after [...]; "Come, enter [...] and go straight to [...], (then) come [...]." As to [... (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

LÚv.EN—⸢iš-ka⸣-[ra-te] / ma ár-ḫiš le-lu-u-⸢ni⸣ / i—da-at mzab-bu-u-a ⸢URU.x⸣+[x x x] / le-ru-bu / a-na ar-ḫi-iš ù ⸢UDU?⸣-[MEŠ] / li-iš-kul le-lu-u-ni / bir-ti IGI.2-MEŠ / ⸢ša⸣ LÚv.ḫa-za-a-ni / LÚv.ša—UGU—URU / lu-ma-di-du / LÚv.UD kas pu [x x] / LÚv.EN—iš-ka-[ra-te?] / ⸢lu⸣-še-ṣu-[u-ni] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / ⸢i—da-at⸣ [x x x x x] / ma al-ka [x x x x] / er-ba pa-an [x x x x] / ⸢et-qa* :* al*⸣-[ka-ni x x] / ⸢al?-ka?⸣ a ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / ina UGU-ka [x x x x] / ⸢x⸣ [x x 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 P313660.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313660). 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/P313660/.

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