Position in chronology
SAA 05 109. Allocating Fields for Garrison Troops (CT 53 394)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] them. He said: "[...]." (2) [I said]: "You are [...] the ki[ng ...]." (3) I am bringing them down to [...] as the king, [my lord], ordered me. What are the king my [lord's] orders? (6) Alternatively, each (of them) should st[ay in] his (own) field or garden, and fear the Crown Prince. [W]hy should the whole town take away field[s of the f]ort? (11) [NN the royal body]guard who [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu-nu ma-[a x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢at⸣-tú-nu nu-uk ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x] / [x x x x]-⸢ú⸣-bu ki-i ša LUGAL [be-lí] / [ṭè-e]-⸢mu⸣ iš-ku-na-ni a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [ú]-še-ra-da-šú-nu mi-nu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí] / [i]-qa-bu-ni ú-la-a ia-mut-[tu] / [ina] ŠÀ A.ŠÀ-šú GIŠ.SAR-šú lu kam-mu-[su] / [a]-na DUMU—LUGAL lip-lu-ḫu [o] / [a]-ta-a URU gab-bi-šú A.ŠÀ-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [ša URU].⸢bir⸣-tú i-na-ši-⸢ú⸣ [o] / [x x LÚv.qur]-bu-te* ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313808.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313808). 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/P313808/.
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