Position in chronology
SAA 05 257. Sheep from Dur-Yakin (ABL 0867)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] are being fed. I have wr[itten ab]out these sheep of the scholars, which came forth from Dur-Yakin; they have entrusted them to the commanders-of-ten to whom the Dur-Yakinites are entering, saying: (8) "Appoint two men each from among them to graze them, until your brothers come and give them out." (r 2) Now that the king gave the command, we shall receive them from all of them. (r 4) As to the attendant of the treasurer about whom the king, my lord, said: "He should come" — (r 6) the copper which is being refined by the servants of the magnates, (as well as) the ... are at his disposal, and I have been in Nineveh. (r 10) I have now received him and sent him [to] the king, my lord.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / a-⸢x⸣+[x x] ša-ku-lu a-⸢sa⸣-[par? ina] UGU-ḫi / UDU-MEŠ an-nu-te ša LÚv.um-ma-ni / ša TAv URU.BÀD—ia-ki-ni / ú-ṣu-ni-ni šú-nu a-na LÚv.GAL—10-MEŠ-te / ša URU.BÀD—ia-ki-na-a.a / ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu e-rab-u-ni / ip-taq-du ma-a 02-a.a ERIM-MEŠ / ina ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu pi-iq-da / li-ir-ʾu-ú-šú-nu / a-di PAB-MEŠ-ku-nu / il-lak-u-ni-ni / i-da-nu-ni-šú-nu / ú-ma-a LUGAL iq-ṭí-bi / TAv…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334595.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334595). 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/P334595/.
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