SAA 05 297. Transporting Stone Thresholds and Raising a Bull Colossus (ABL 0957)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334646

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (4) [I have brought] stone thre[sholds acr]oss (the river), but five [of them] remain [the]re. [I have appoi]nted [the chief...] in charge of them, saying: "Bring [them] across!" (8) On the first day [I to]ok [x] king's men with [me] and went to [Tas]tiate to raise the bull colossus. It has been hewn and [...]. (r 2) I am [n]ow spreading poles against [the qu]ay and raising the [bu]ll colossus. We will do it all right; the king, my lord, can be glad.

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 x x]-an-⸢ni?⸣ / še [x x x x x] ⸢x x-ma*⸣ / NA₄.I.⸢DIB⸣-[MEŠ ú-se]-⸢bir⸣ / 05 NA₄.[I.DIB-MEŠ ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi / re-e-⸢ḫu?⸣ [LÚv.GAL—x x]-MEŠ / ina pa-ni [ap-ti-qi-di] / muk ⸢še*-bir⸣-[šú-nu x LÚv].⸢ERIM*⸣-MEŠ*—MAN* / ina qa-ti-[ia at]-ti-ši / UD 01-KÁM ina [URU.tas]-⸢ti*-a*⸣-ti / ina UGU NA₄.dALAD.dLAMA / ša-at-bu-⸢e? a-ta*⸣-lak* / ba-ti-qi ⸢x⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [an]-nu-rig…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334646.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334646). 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/P334646/.

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