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SAA 05 232. The Governor of Dur-Šarruken Wants More Fields (ABL 1192)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur]. Good [health t]o [the king, my lord]! (4) A[s to] the t[owns of] the country Hau, about which Kiṣir-[Ašš]ur [s]aid to the king, [my] lord: "Let them give me 200 (hectares) of field in their environs" — (8) [x town]s of Sirura and 5 [tow]ns of the house of the priest [of] Bel [...], under the jurisdiction of the chief [eunuch], are [...] at the disposal of K[iṣir-Aššur]. (12) [...] the towns [...] (Break) (r 1) Now, Kiṣir-[Aššur claims]: "I do not extract (labour duty) in the environs of Arzuhina or in Dur-Taliti. It is the towns I…
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/P334782/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mdUTU—EN—PAB] / ⸢lu* DI⸣-[mu a]-na* [LUGAL EN-ia] / ⸢ina⸣ [UGU] ⸢URU?⸣-[MEŠ ša] ⸢KUR⸣.ḫa-a-ú / ⸢ša*⸣ m*ki-ṣir—[aš]-⸢šur*⸣ ina* IGI* LUGAL EN-[ia] / ⸢iq*-bu*⸣-u*-ni* [ma]-a 02 me A.ŠÀ ⸢ša*⸣ / [ina qa]-⸢ni*⸣ : ⸢li⸣-di-nu-u-⸢ni⸣ [o] / [x URU]-⸢MEŠ*⸣-ni ša KUR.si-ru-ra / 05* ⸢URU*⸣-MEŠ-[ni] ša É LÚv.SANGA / [d]⸢EN?⸣ [x x x] ⸢ša⸣ ŠU.2 LÚv.GAL—[SAG?] / [x x x x x]-ú ina*…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334782.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334782). 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/P334782/.
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