Position in chronology
SAA 05 206. Opening the Treasury (ABL 0319+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) On the 27th day, at dawn, we opened the treasury of metal scraps at the entrance to the house in the palace upon the terrace. (8) [We] weighed 420 talents of bronze scraps and plac[ed] it in the storehouse [of] the cupbearer. (11) We also weighed [x talen]ts of bronze objects [...] (Break) (r 1) [......] city, (r 2) [...... of the R]eview [Palace]. (r 3) Alternatively, we can do the (inventory) of the Review Palace on the 29th and go in the remaining days to Dur-Šarruken, to seal those tunics.
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/P313640/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mLUGAL—e-mur-an-ni / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / UD 27-KAM TAv sa-an-ti / É—na-kam-ti ša ḫu-še-e / ša ina né-ri-bi ša É ina É.GAL / ša ina UGU tam-le-e ni-ip-te*-te / 04 me 20 GÚ.UN URUDU ḫu-še-e / ⸢ni⸣-iḫ-ti-aṭ ina É—ŠU.2 / [ša] ⸢LÚv*⸣.KAŠ.LUL ni*-is*-sa-⸢kan⸣ / [x GÚ].⸢UN⸣ ú-de-e URUDU* / [x x x x] ⸢ni⸣-iḫ-[ti]-⸢aṭ⸣ / [x x x x x] ⸢ud⸣ [x x] / [x x x]-⸢an⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313640.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313640). 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/P313640/.
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