Position in chronology
SAA 01 066. Casting Column Bases and Lions of Bronze (ABL 0452)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Ṭab-šar-Aššur]. Good health to [the king], my lord! (4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "When are they going to cast the gate column-bases for the portico of the hilānu palaces?" (9) I asked Aššur-šumi-ke'in and the artists, who told me this: "We are going to cast four column-bases of bronze for two hilānu palaces in the month of Marchesvan (VIII); the small lions of the hilānu(s) will be cast together with the big lions in the spring." (18) I asked the son of B[el-...] about the work on the temple doors: "When are you going to finish your…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / ⸢ARAD⸣-ka m[DÙG—IM—aš-šur] / lu DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL EN]-ia / ša LUGAL be-lí ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an]-ni / ma-a gul-la-a-te ⸢ša* KÁ*⸣ / ša šap-la tim-me / ša É—ḫi-il-la-na-te / ma-a im—ma-te ú-šá-ra-qu / a-na maš-šur—MU*—ki-in / a-na LÚv.um-ma-ni a-sa-ʾa-al / ma-a ina ITI.APIN 04 gul-la-te URUDU* / ša 02 É—ḫi-il-la-na-ni / nu-ša-ra-qa ma-a UR.MAḪ-MEŠ / QÀL-MEŠ-te ša É—ḫi-il-la-ni /…
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 P334314.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334314). 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/P334314/.
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