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SAA 01 110. Report on a Festival and on Bull Colossi (NL 016)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant M]arduk-rem[anni. Good health] to the king, [my] lord! (4) [The festi]val has been celebrated; the god [...] came out and returned in peace. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king! (8) As to the bull colossi about which the king my lord wrote to me, I have worked out their positions at the ...s of the palaces and they are hewing them. We shall place the hewn colossi before the ... residence; they will trim the big ones and whe shall place them before the middlemost gate. (16) As to the [sto]ne bulls of which I spoke to the king, my lord, they will modify…
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/P224487/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] EN-⸢ia⸣ / [ARAD-ka m]⸢dMES*⸣—rém*-[a-ni] / [lu DI-mu a]-na LUGAL EN-[ia] / [i-sin]-⸢nu⸣ e-pi-[iš] / ⸢d⸣[x ina] ⸢šul⸣-me ⸢it-tu-ṣi⸣ [o] / e-ta-rab dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ lik-ru-bu / ina UGU dALAD.d⸢LAMA⸣ / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / ú-⸢ta⸣-si-ik ina UGU KÁ-MEŠ-te / ša ⸢É*.GAL*⸣-MEŠ ak-ta-ra-ar / i-bat-tu-qu dALAD.dLAMA / bat-qu-te ina IGI É la DU.DU-ni / ni-⸢šak-kan⸣…
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 P224487.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P224487/..
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/P224487/.
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