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SAA 05 298. Moving Bull Colossi Across the River (ABL 1362)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (4) As to the of[ficials] in Adi[a] and in Tas[tiate concerning whom] the king, my lord, wro[te me]: "All of them should go t[o Dur-Šarruken]!" — (9) the bu[ll colossi] of the magnates are set up to[gether] and the king, my lord, [(earlier) said]: "They should quickly ... the colossi and as long as the water in the river is [low, bring them across] the river!" (14) Who [...] would (then) stay (here) to look after the [bull colossi]? (r 1) N[ow], the magnates are waiting for [me]. May the king, my lord, wait for me (until) Siv[an] (III), and I will (then) get the work…
Source: 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/P334865/
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Transliteration
⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x] a-na [x x x x x] / UGU LÚ.⸢EN⸣—[pi-qit-ta-ti] / ša ŠÀ URU.a-di-[a] / URU.ta-as-[ti-a-te ša] / LUGAL be-lí iš-[pur-an-ni] / ma-a gab-bi-šú-nu ⸢a*⸣-[na URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN] / lil-li-ku d⸢ALAD⸣.[dLAMA-MEŠ] / ša LÚ.GAL-MEŠ ki-⸢i⸣ [a-ḫa?-iš] / zaq-pu LUGAL be-lí [iq-ṭi-bi] / ma-a dALAD.dLAMA-[MEŠ] / ar-ḫi-iš li-ik-ba*-[su-ni] / a-du A-MEŠ ina ÍD…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334865.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334865). 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/P334865/.
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