SAA 01 255. The River of Samaria Dries up (CT 53 458)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313871

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 1

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) ......] which in [...... an of]ficial in charge of the seed g[rain ...... (Three untranslatable lines) (6) [...] from under [......] he came and gave me [......] dirt [...] emblem [......] (9) The river running past Samar[ia has dried up and] there is just one well in the whole region [......]. I have set [to work ...] and they have filtered it(s water), but they have not yet finished [......]. (r 4) [...] persons with exempted (soldiers) [......] cities [...... (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x x x x]+⸢x ša⸣ ina [x x x x x x] / [x x LÚv.EN—pi]-qit-te ina UGU ŠE.⸢NUMUN⸣-[MEŠ x x x] / [x x x x]-⸢ub⸣-te-šú ⸢x ka⸣ [x x x x x x] / [x x x x] a-ta-[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x] a [x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ TAv šap-la ma-⸢a-x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ⸢il⸣-la-ka i-tan-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] / šá-ʾu-ur-tú GIŠ.⸢ŠU⸣.NIR [x x x x] / ÍD TAv IGI URU.sa-me-⸢ri⸣-[na x x e-tab-la] / 01-et ši-i…

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 P313871.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313871). 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/P313871/.

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