SAA 15 020. Fragment Concerning Mule Express in the Province of Arrapha (CT 53 503)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313916

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (3) [...] mule express [...] (4) [...] my teams [...] (5) [...] I with [...] (6) [... the pr]ovince of Arrapha [...] (7) [... t]his [...] my team [...] (8) [...] my teams [...] (9) [...] teams ...[...] (Rest destroyed)

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/P313916/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x x x x] e ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ka bu [x x x] / [x x x x] ka-li-e [x x x] / [x x x x] ú-⸢ra⸣-te-ia [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢a⸣-na-ku a-di ú-[x x x] / [x x] ⸢NAM⸣ URU.ár-arrap-ḫa ⸢al⸣-[x x] / [x x] ⸢an⸣-ni-i ú-ra-a.a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x]-ra ú-ra-te-ia ú-⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x] ú-ra-ME-te ú-ma-[x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313916.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313916). 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/P313916/.

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