Position in chronology
SAA 05 117. Delays in Timber Delivery (CT 53 035)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant [Gabbu-ana-Aššur]. (3) As to the message [which I got]: "Why [are the beams late]?" — (5) up to now [...], Aššur-reṣuw[a, the ...ean], the Kummean, [the ...ean], the Babutean, [the ...ean], the Ukkean, the I[l...ean], the Uliean, the Meṣa[ean], in all 10 city lords have hauled (the beams) to me (over a distance of) two stag[es], while I had to haul them for the third stage alone! (15) By the gods of the king, my lord, the day that the beams came to me, the [...] (official) did not leave me; (I swear) the [beams] are on the [river] ba[nk] ..., but the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] / ARAD-ka m[gab-bu—ana—aš-šur] / UGU ši-bir-te [ša ta-li-ka-ni] / ma-a a-ta-a [GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ na-mar-ku-u] / a-di a-ki man-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x] / maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-[a KUR.x x-a.a] / KUR.ku-ma-a.a ⸢KUR⸣.[x x x-a.a] / KUR.ba-bu-ta-[a.a KUR.x x-a.a] / KUR.ú-ka-a.a KUR.⸢il⸣-[x-a.a] / KUR.ú-li-a.a KUR.me-ṣa-[a.a] / PAB 10 EN—URU.URU-MEŠ 02 mar-di-⸢a⸣-[te] / e-tab-ku-u-ni a-di UGU-ḫi-ia /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313450.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313450). 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/P313450/.
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