SAA 01 095. On Carpenters and Architects (CT 53 510)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313923

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 1

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(Beginning destroyed) (4) Aššur [......] (5) which [......] (6) five chariots [......] (7) 60 urabi (troops) [......] (8) 300 Itu['aeans ......] (9) As to the carpenters about whom [the king my lord] wrote to me: "30 [......]!" 22 carpenters ...[......]; half of them have not [yet] co[me]. Five architects of the g[overnor] of Calah have come to me [on the ...th] of [...]; none [of them] is w[orking ......]. (r 5) I [......] (r 6) I shall go [......] (r 7) in the city of [......] (r 8) the men [...... (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 x] / ni-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / šu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / daš-⸢šur⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ša ⸢i⸣-[x x x x x x x x] / 05 GIŠ.GIGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] / 60 ur-a-⸢bi⸣ [x x x x x] / 03 me KUR.i-tú-[ʾa-a.a x x] / ina UGU LÚv.NAGAR-MEŠ ša [LUGAL be-lí] / iš-pur-an-ni ma-a 30 [x x x] / 22 LÚv.NAGAR-MEŠ pa-ni-[x x x] / meš-lu-šú-nu la-a i-la-[ku-u-ni] / 05 LÚv.še-lap-pa-a.a ša…

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 P313923.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313923). 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/P313923/.

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