Position in chronology
SAA 05 142. Having an Official Whipped (CT 53 840)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] in the city [...]. (3) I have several times [told him to go] to Baqar to the [...] and bring down ice, but he does not obey me. (7) [When the king], my lord, [was] in C[alah], I gave to the king, my lord, the following [report]: "I have ap[pointed ... in the Pa]lace [...] (Break) (r 3) "He has not opened [...], nor giv[en or]ders [to ......]." (r 5) The king, my lord, (then) se[nt] word; [he] was brou[ght] to Calah, and the king, my lord, order[ed] him be whipped with [...] leather straps. (r 9) I (however) said to [the king, my lord]: "[......] (Rest destroyed)
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/P314249/
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Transliteration
[x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢ina URU⸣.[x x x x x x x] / 02-šú 03-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / nu-uk pa-an ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x] / a-na URU.ba-qar ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ku-pu-u še-ri-⸢da⸣ [x x x] / la i-ša-ma-a-ni [ki-i LUGAL] / be-lí a-na URU.⸢kal⸣-[ḫi šu-tú-ni] / pa-an LUGAL EN-ia [ṭè-mu] / ú-te-re nu-⸢uk⸣ [x x] / [ina É].⸢GAL ap⸣-[x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x] / [x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / ⸢la⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P314249.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314249). 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/P314249/.
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