SAA 05 263. Arrival of Rams (ABL 1206)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334793

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [As to NN about wh]om the king, my lord, wrote [me], I had sent word on the very day that the previous lette[r] arrived: they are bringing him. (6) As to the 1,000 rams about which the king, my lord, wrote me, I am herewith sending them over with my messenger. (10) As to Qurdi-Iss[ar], the archer about whom the king, [my lord, wr]ote me: "Encou[rage him, and give him a house], a plough, and a field [......]" (Rest destroyed)

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

Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.

Transliteration

[x x x]+⸢x x x⸣+[x x] / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-[an-ni] / ina ŠÀ-bi UD-mi ša e-gír-⸢tú⸣ / pa-ni-tú ta-li-kan-ni / a-sa-par ú-ba-lu-ni-šú / ina UGU UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ li-mi / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / an-nu-rig ina ŠU.2 / LÚv.DUMU—šip-ri-ia ú-se-bi-la / ina UGU mqur-di—d⸢15⸣ / ⸢LÚv⸣.ma-ḫi-ṣi ša LUGAL [be-lí] / ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-ni ma-a ŠÀ [šá-áš-kin-šú] / [É] GIŠ.APIN A.ŠÀ a-[x x] / [x x x]+⸢x x x⸣+[x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334793.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334793). 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/P334793/.

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet (VAT 15211)

An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.

~2050 BCE

Umma Livestock and Personnel Account (AnOr 1, 243)

A surviving administrative record of named people and livestock in the Ur III period. Together with other archives, such accounts reveal the work of managing animals, deliveries and institutional responsibility.

~1340 BCE

Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre

Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.