Position in chronology
SAA 05 019. Rendezvous (CT 53 625)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To [the king, my lord]: your [servant Nashir-Bel]. Go[od health to the king, my lord]! (Break) (r 4) "We [shall be] in the city [... by the ...th of ...]; (r 7) They left on the f[irst], saying: "[......] for 5 days in the city [...] before us." (e. 1) [I said]: "Find out [what]ever it is [and report it to me]." (e. 2) I am [now] waiting [for th]em, and sh[all] write [to the king, m]y [lord, as soon as they have returned].
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/P314037/
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Transliteration
a-na [LUGAL EN-ía] / ARAD-[ka mNIGIN—EN] / ⸢lu⸣ [DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía] / [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x x] KASKAL [x x x] / [x x x x] ib ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x] ma-a [x x x] / [x x x] ina URU.⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [ma-a a]-ni-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x] / šu-nu it-ta-tak-⸢ku⸣ / ma-a 05 UD-MEŠ ina URU.[x x] / ina pa-ni-ni rak-[x] / [x x x x x x x nu-uk mi-nu] ⸢ša⸣ ši-ti-ni am-ra / [qi-bi-a an-nu-rig ina pa-ni-šú]-nu a-da-gal / [ki-ma is-suḫ-ru-ni a-na LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ a-⸢šap⸣-pa-ra
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P314037.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314037). 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/P314037/.
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