Position in chronology
SAA 05 014. Chaldeans in Bit-Zamani (ABL 1193)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the [king, my lord]: your servant [Nashir-Bel]. Good health [to the king, my lord]! (4) [The land of the king] is well; the fo[rts of the king] are well. The king, [my] lo[rd, can be glad]. (7) When the king, my lord, set out to [the country of ...], the ki[ng, my lord], arrived in [...], and I [wrote to ...] to Bit-Zaman[i ...] concerning the kin[g's] me[n]: (12) "Go and get 100 king's men, and come and b[ring them]; I should do [......]." (15) The 'third man' [......] (Break) (r 1) "Why [...] the horses [...]? (r 3) "Why [......] to the Chaldeans? [They should cultivate] the arable…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] / ARAD-ka [mNIGIN—EN] / lu-u DI-mu [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [KUR šá LUGAL] / DI-mu a-na URU.⸢bi⸣-[rat ša LUGAL] / ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia lu DÙG] / ki-i LUGAL be-lí ⸢a⸣-[na KUR.x x] / ú-na-miš-u-ni ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí x x x] / iq-ṭí-ri-ib a-na-[ku x x x x] / a-na KUR.É—za-ma-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] / ina UGU LÚv.ERIM—⸢LUGAL⸣-[MEŠ a-sa-ap-ra] / nu-uk 01 me LÚv.ERIM-[MEŠ 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 P334783.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334783). 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/P334783/.
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