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SAA 05 069. On an Army Unit (CT 53 125)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the kin[g, my lord]: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to my army unit about which my lord wrote me: "Your unit should be placed at the head of your ...!" — (7) now the gods of the [kin]g have taken action: when the king, [my] lo[rd appoin]ted me, [......] to mo[ve on]. (11) Otherwise, [......] to Kiṣ[ir-Aššur]. (13) As to the wor[k ...] about which the king w[rote me], there is no [...]; the ki[ng ......]. The king, [my lord, can be] gl[ad]. (Break) (r 5) Further, they will make the oxen stand in position before all the magnates who are coming.
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/P313540/
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Transliteration
a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / ARAD-ka mI—⸢DINGIR⸣ / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN*-ia / ina UGU ki-iṣ-ri-ia ša be-lí / iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢ki*-ṣar*⸣-ka / ina re-eš ša x-MEŠ-⸢ka⸣ / lu-u šá-ki-ni ⸢ú*-ma*⸣-[a] / DINGIR-MEŠ-ni ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ e-⸢tap⸣-šú / a-ki LUGAL be-[lí] ⸢ip?-qi?⸣-[da]-ni-ni / a-na e-ta-[qi x x x x x] / ú-la-a a-[x x x x x] / ina UGU ⸢m⸣ki-⸢ṣir⸣—[aš-šur x x x] / ina UGU dul-⸢li⸣ [x x x x x] / 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 P313540.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313540). 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/P313540/.
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