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SAA 05 119. Complaint on Lack of Straw (ABL 0122)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) All the straw in my country is reserved for Dur-Šarruken, and my recruitment officers are now running after me (because) there is no straw for the pack animals. (9) Now, what are the king my lord's instructions?
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/P334070/
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Transliteration
⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia / ARAD-ka mgab-bu—ana—aš-šur / ŠE.IN.NU-MEŠ gab-bu / ina KUR-ia a-na URU.BÀD—mMAN—GIN.NA / ša-⸢ak*-lu⸣ an-nu-rig / LÚv.mu-šár-kis-MEŠ-ni / i—⸢da⸣-tú-u-a i-du-lu / ŠE.IN.NU-MEŠ a-na a-ṣap-MEŠ / la-áš-šú ú-ma-a / mi-nu ša LUGAL be-lí / i-qa-bu-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 P334070.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334070). 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/P334070/.
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