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SAA 05 037. Defense Against Accusations (CT 53 101)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ša-Aššur-dubbu. The best of health to the king, my lord]! (4) [The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well]. (Possibly one line missing) (5) (......) who [......] — the king, my lord, should [not believe him]! (7) No Tazir[u ......] (8) I do [not] conceal [...]. (9) Let the king, my lord, not [...]! (10) If I [......], I will not be able to [...] and to [...]. (12) The sheep are at the disposal of the people; [......]. (13) I [...] here; I have [......], (14) and will bring out [...]. My [servant]s have [...ed] to [...] and questioned (him).…
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/P313516/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mšá—aš-šur—du-bu] / [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía a—dan-niš] / [DI-mu a-na URU.bi-rat a-na KUR ša LUGAL EN-ía] / ⸢ša i ri⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / LUGAL be-lí ⸢lu⸣ [la-a x x x x] / ⸢la⸣ LÚv.ta-zi-⸢ru⸣ [x x x x x] / ú-pa-za-ar : [x x x x x x] / LUGAL be-lí lu ⸢la⸣-a ⸢i⸣-[x]-⸢x⸣+[x x] / šúm-mu a-na-⸢ku⸣ LÚv.⸢ṣi-x⸣+[x x x x] / la mu-qa-⸢a⸣.a la a-[x x] ⸢la a⸣-[x x] / UDU-MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313516.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313516). 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/P313516/.
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