SAA 05 205. Precious Stones (ABL 0758)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334535

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(1) To the king, [my] lo[rd]: your servant Šarru-em[uranni]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! (4) While I [was in ...], (5) milhu stone [...] (6) nukur[...] stone [...] (7) at [my] disposal [...] (8) to the dy[ers] (9) I provi[ded ...] (10) The king, my lord, [...] (11) ...[...] (12) [en]graver [...] (Break) (r 1) [As to what] I sa[id to the king], my [lo]rd, [in] Cal[ah]: "I will [...] and we will [...] with it" — (r 6) if that is all right, we shall [......] with it.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

a-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ia] / ARAD-ka mMAN—IGI.[LAL-ni] / lu DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] / a-du É a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / NA₄.mil-ḫu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / NA₄.nu-KUR-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ina pa-na-tú-⸢u*⸣-[a] / ina UGU ṣa-⸢pi⸣-[ú-ti] / uq-ṭa-⸢ri⸣-[bi x x x] / [LUGAL] EN ⸢a ki⸣ [x x] / [x x]-MEŠ tar-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [LÚv].⸢KAB⸣.SAR ⸢ki⸣-[x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ni [x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [ša ina] ⸢URU*⸣.kal*-[ḫa a-na LUGAL] /…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334535.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334535). 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/P334535/.

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