Position in chronology
SAA 05 015. Building a Town, a Fort and a Palace (CT 53 065)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Liphu]r-Bel. [Go]od hea[lth] to the king, my lord! (4) The land of the king is well; the forts [are w]ell. The king, my lord, can be [gl]ad. (7) [As to] the fields of the patrimony of Aššur-remanni, about which the king, my lord, wrote me, the royal bodyguard shocked me when he said: "Give up the pro[perty], the well, and the arable land!" (14) (Regarding) the fields, the king, my lord, knows that [x] years ago I built a town in the king's field. Under the aegis of [the ki]ng, my lord, I have bought and added to it 400 (hectares of) field from [the…
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/P313480/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka m]⸢NIGIN—EN⸣ / [lu]-u ⸢DI⸣-[mu] ana MAN EN-ia / DI-mu ana KUR ša LUGAL / ⸢DI-mu⸣ ana ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ / ⸢ŠÀ ša⸣ MAN EN-ia lu DÙG / ⸢ina⸣ [UGU] A.ŠÀ.GA-MEŠ / ša ⸢É—AD⸣-šú ša maš-šur—rém-a-ni / ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / LÚv.qur-⸢bu⸣-u-ti / up-ta-lìḫ-an-ni / ma-a ⸢É?⸣ gu-ub-bu / ŠE.⸢NUMUN⸣-[MEŠ] ⸢ra⸣-am-me / A.⸢ŠÀ⸣-[MEŠ] LUGAL be-lí / ⸢ú-da⸣ [x] MU.AN.⸢NA⸣ / ⸢URU⸣ [ša]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313480.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313480). 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/P313480/.
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