SAA 05 017. Work on a Bull Colossus and Stone (CT 53 386+)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P397189

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(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 [are well. The king, my lord, can be glad]. (7) [......] (8) [... Bit]-Zamani. (9) [...] for the watch (10) [... should] come up (11) [... should] come out. (12) [... bull] colossus (13) [...] with me (14) [... they should] drag. (r 1) [... in x] days they should alternate. (r 2) [...] the bull colossus (r 3) [...] the stone thresholds (r 4) [... Se']-gabbar (r 5) [... the king], my lord (r 6) [...] I shall forward.

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

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Transliteration

[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mNIGIN—EN] / [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía] / [DI-mu a-na KUR ša LUGAL] / [DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL].⸢ṢU⸣-MEŠ / [ŠÀ ša LUGAL EN-ia lu DÙG] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x KUR.É]—za-ma-na / [x x x a]-⸢na⸣ EN.NUN / [x x x x] ⸢le⸣-li-u / [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣-ṣu-u-ni / [x x NA₄.dALAD.d]LAMA / [x x x is]-⸢si⸣-ia / [x x x liš]-du-du / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UD-MEŠ li-te-nu-ni / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ NA₄.dALAD.dLAMA / [x x x x] ⸢NA₄⸣.I.DIB-MEŠ / [x x mse-e]—gab-bar / [x x x LUGAL] EN-ia / [x x x x] ⸢ú⸣-qar-rab

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P397189.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P397189). 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/P397189/.

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