Position in chronology
SAA 15 033. News of Borsippa, Sippar, Elam and the Son of Yakin (ABL 1003)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) ["...] ..., tell [... to Eṭiru] and Iddin-ahhe [...]! And if [he comes] to Sippar, [let] Eṭiru and Iddin-[ahhe tell it to him. ......] the (good) name of Sippar, he will become afraid, get up, [...], go away, [and ...] there. [Guard] this word like [...]!" — (9) I did neither fetch him up here nor did I tel[l him (to come)]. They brought him to me, and I [and NN s]poke [with him] in accordance with the k[ing]'s words: (12) "(Any)one who [......] may live [in] one of my villages; (14) ["...] within these [...] (15) "[...] It is the king's word [...] (16) ["...] Re[ap]…
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/P334671/
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Transliteration
ša [x x] ⸢x⸣ na [x x x x me-ṭè-ru] / ⸢ù⸣ o* m*SUM—PAB-MEŠ ⸢qi⸣-[bi x x x x] / ù šúm-ma ina UD.KIB.NUN.[KI il-la-ka] / me-ṭè-ru ù mSUM—[PAB-MEŠ liq-bu-niš-šú] / ma-a šu-mu ša UD.KIB.NUN.⸢KI⸣ [x x x x] / i-pal-làḫ i-ta-ab-⸢bi⸣ [x x x x x] / ma-a il-lak ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ma a-bu-tú an-ni-tú ki-i [x x x] / la ú-še-li-a la a-qa-⸢ba⸣-[áš-šú?] / ina UGU-ia na-ṣu-niš-šú a-⸢na⸣-[ku mx 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 P334671.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334671). 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/P334671/.
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