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SAA 05 006. Transporting Logs (ABL 0732)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: your [servant] Nashir-Bel. [Good] health to the king, my lord! (4) The land of the king [is well], the forts of the [king] a[re well]. The king, my lord, can [be glad]. (7) I have b[rought 1],200 [door-beams] and [1],200 roof-b[eams] to the river. [...] the king [...] (Break) (r 2) [...] the [...]s in the r[iver]. (r 3) [As soon as] I have bro[ught] an equ[al number] of troops [into the forts, I will promptly bring them to the ri[ver] bank; afterwards, the king, my lord, may do as pleases.
Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334521/
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ mNIGIN—EN / [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / [DI-mu a]-na KUR šá LUGAL / [DI-mu a]-na ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ ša [LUGAL] / [ŠÀ ša] LUGAL EN-ia lu [DÙG] / [x]-lim-02-me GIŠ.[ŠÚ?.A?-MEŠ] / [x]-lim-02-me GIŠ.⸢ÙR*⸣-[MEŠ] / [ina] UGU ÍD ⸢uq?⸣-[ṭa-rib] / [x x] LUGAL [x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ šu bu [x x x x] / [x]-MEŠ ina ⸢ÍD?⸣ [x x x] / [ki-ma?] LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ ú-sa-an-[šil?] / [ina] ⸢URU*⸣.ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ ú-se-⸢rib⸣ / ⸢la⸣-aḫ-ru-ub ina UGU ⸢ÍD⸣ / ⸢lu⸣-qa-rib ur-ki-ti / ⸢ki⸣-i šá LUGAL i-la-u-ni / ⸢le⸣-pu-uš
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334521.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334521). source
Translation excerpted from Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334521/.
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