SAA 05 287. Inspecting Bronze and Wooden Objects (CT 53 628)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314040

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [... has been rec]eived, and we will enter (it); (3) [there] are vessels of bronze [...] (4) [...] it is burnt red. (5) We shall see [...] (Break) (r 3) [...] of bronze (r 4) [...] we have weighed. (r 5) [...] beams [......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[x x x x x x] ⸢an it⸣ / [x x x ma]-ḫi-ir nu-še-rib / [x x i]-⸢ba⸣-ši ÚTUL-MEŠ URUDU / [x x x] sa-a-mu šar-pu šú-u / [x x x] ⸢né⸣-em-mar ra-ʾi-ni / [x x x] ša me <$x x$> URUDU / [x x x]-bi ni-iḫ-ti-[aṭ] / [x x] ⸢GIŠ⸣.ÙR-MEŠ ⸢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 P314040.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314040). 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/P314040/.

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