SAA 05 007. Log Driving (CT 53 280)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313695

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) 2,000 [door-beams ......] (2) 500 roof-b[eams ......] (3) former [......] (4) bri[ng ......] (5) as soon as [......] (6) have co[me ......] (Break) (r 1) [of] the ki[ng ......] (r 2) should req[uest ......] (r 3) The king, my lord, [wrote to me]: (r 4) "[...] the [logs] (r 5) quick[ly ...]" — (r 6) the water [in the river] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

02 lim ⸢GIŠ⸣.[x x x x x] / 05 me GIŠ.⸢ÙR⸣-[MEŠ x x] / pa-ni-um-[ma x x x x] / ú-qa-ra-[bu-ni x x x] / ki-ma ⸢a⸣-[x x x x x] / i-⸢tal⸣-[x x x x x] / [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] / le-⸢riš*⸣ [x x x x x] / LUGAL be-⸢lí⸣ [x x x x] / ma-a GIŠ.⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ar-ḫi-⸢iš⸣ [x x x x] / A-MEŠ [ina ÍD x x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313695.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313695). 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/P313695/.

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