Position in chronology
SAA 01 248. Looking for Timber on a Mountain (CT 53 866)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [As to what the king, my lord wrote to me: "PN] will give trunks to [...]-dala, and he will also show the mountain to your men (who) should cut down the rest of the trunks" — (8) I moved the men up (the mountain) and sent an official with them; they went to have a look and came back saying: "They showed us 900 cut trunks but they are not at all suitable for the work; and nobody showed us the mountain." (r 9) Now then [...... (Rest destroyed)
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/P314275/
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Transliteration
[ma-a] ⸢GIŠ.ŠÚ.A-MEŠ a*-na*⸣ / [mx]—da-la i-da-na / ⸢ù⸣ ma-a KUR-ú / [a]-⸢na⸣ LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ-ka / ⸢ú⸣-ka-la-ma / ⸢ma⸣-a re-eḫ-ti GIŠ.ŠÚ.A-MEŠ / ⸢li⸣-ik-ki-su / ⸢ERIM?⸣-MEŠ us-se-li / ⸢LÚv⸣.EN—pi-qi-te / ⸢i⸣-si-šú-⸢nu⸣ / [a]-sa-ap-[ra] / [i]-tal-ku e-[tam-ru] / ⸢i⸣-sa-ḫu-ru-u-ni / [ma]-a 09 me GIŠ.ŠÚ.A-MEŠ / ⸢nak⸣-sa-a-te / ⸢uk⸣-ta-li-mu-na-ši / ma-a la-šú a-na dul-lum / la il-la-ka / ù ma-a KUR-ú / me-me-ni la ú-kal-lim-na-ši / [ú]-ma-a an-nu-rig / [x x x] ⸢qi na⸣ [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 P314275.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314275). 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/P314275/.
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