Position in chronology
SAA 05 028. Red Wool for the King (ABL 0431)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ. The best of health to the king, my lord! (5) The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. (7) Last year, the king, my lord, told me: "[S]end me red wool!" (10) Now then Metu[nu ......] (Break) (r 3) have been brought [to me].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka ma-ši-pa-a / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia a—dan-niš / DI-mu a-na URU.bi-rat / a-na KUR ša LUGAL EN-ia / ina šá-dàq-di-iš / LUGAL be-lí iq-ṭi-bi-a / ma-a SÍG.tab-ri-bu* / [še]-bi-la an-nu-⸢rig⸣ / [m]me-tu-[nu x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [o] na-ṣu-[u-ni]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334296.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334296). 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/P334296/.
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