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SAA 15 002. Dangerous Boat Trip; King Approaching Uruk (ABL 1056)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Iss]ar-du[ri. Good health t]o the king, [my] l[ord]! (4) [Concerning the g]uard about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e, whom the servants [of the kin]g my lord have hired, he will depart [tom]orrow. (8) [The boa]tmen [sa]id to me as follows: "Are we to go as he says? The [te]rritory is not safe, there are bandits w[ho ...] there. Surely [... will] hear [about it and] send [...]s [who will t]ake the boats away from us. [...] in the ri[ve]r [...]. Let m]e go [...] and give [......], (and) let us wait [fo]r the king, my lord. As soon as the king is…
Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334703/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka md]⸢15⸣—du-[ri] / [lu DI-mu a]-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ía] / [ina UGU LÚv].⸢šá⸣—EN.NUN ša LUGAL be-lí / [iš-pur-an]-⸢ni⸣ ša LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ / [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía e-ga-ru-ni-ni / [ina ši]-a-ri ú-nam-ma-áš / [LÚv.MÁ].LAḪ₄-MEŠ a-ki an-ni-e / [iq-ṭi]-bu-u-ni ma-a / GIM ⸢pi*⸣-i-šú-u ni-il-lak / ma*-⸢a*⸣ [ka]-qu-ru la šal-mu šú-u / ma*-[a LÚv].par-ri-ṣu-ú-te / ⸢ša⸣ [x x] ina…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334703.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334703). source
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334703/.
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