Position in chronology
SAA 01 137. Clearing away Rubble from a Collapsed Wall (ABL 0329)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Amar-ili. (3) We cleared away the wall of the palace which had fallen in and were starting to dig the foundations when the granary between the storehouse of the Palace Superintendent and the city wall fell down. The barley [...... (Break) (r 1) We have [...]ed and dumped it in the sto[rehouse of ...] and in the storehouse [of ...].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka ma-mar—DINGIR / BÀD ša É.GAL / ša im-qu-ta-a-ni / nu-up-ta-si-ik / ina UGU uš-še / ḫa-ra-aṣ-ṣi / ni-iq-ṭí-rib / É—kar-me ša bi-ir-ti / É—ŠU.2 LÚv.šá—IGI—É.GAL / ša bi-ir-ti BÀD / it-tuq*-⸢ta?⸣ / ŠE.PAD-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] / ina É—⸢ŠU*⸣.[2 x x] / ina É—ŠU.[2 x x bat-qu] / ni-iṣ-ṣa-[bat x x x] / ni-ta-⸢ba*-ak*⸣
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 P334212.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334212). 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/P334212/.
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