Position in chronology
SAA 05 290. Ferrying Some Thresholds Without Boats (CT 53 030)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] they (3) [......] another mountain [...] (4) [......] he returns [...] (5) [......] great [...] in Šimu (6) [......] of large boats (7) [......] ..., as many as there are, (8) [are ...]. These boats are damaged. (9) [......]dadu will return, and (10) [......] their [...]. (11) Perh[aps the king, my lord, wi]ll say: (12) "[... th]ese [boats] (Break) (r 2) [......] the stone thres[holds] (r 3) [...... for the wa]tchtowers (r 5) I shall bring across [the thresholds] which [have been deposited on] the river bank, [and ... do] the work on the boats. [Wh]at does the king, my lord, [say]?
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ man ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ši-na / [x x x x]+⸢x KUR⸣-e ša-ni-u / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ḫa-ni i-sa-ḫu-ra / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ dan-nu ina URU.ši-i-me / [x x x x]-ḫi ša GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ / [x x x] ⸢ta*⸣-ḫa-ni-šú-ni mar ša i-ba-⸢šu-ni⸣ / [x x x x] GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ an-na-te pa-a-ṣa / [x x x]-da-du i-sa-ḫu-⸢ra⸣ / [x x x x]-ḫa-ni-šú-nu i—⸢su⸣-[ri] / [LUGAL be-lí i]-qa-bi ma-a [o] / [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 P313445.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313445). 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/P313445/.
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