Position in chronology
SAA 15 045. Reviewing Implements in Bab-bitqi (ABL 1312)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant Nabû-[belu-ka''in]. Good health to the [king, my lord]! (4) Concerning the repo[rt about which the king, my lord], wrote to me: "Write [to NN]" — I have written to hi[m, and as soon as] he has provided a detailed [report], I shall send t[o the king, my lord, whatever] there is to report. (9) Concerning what the ki[ng, my lord, wrote to me: "Review] the implements and [...] in Bab-bitqi, [seal them with] your seals, and [entrust them in the hands] of Nergal-belu-uṣur!" — [now the]n I have revie[wed them ......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] / ARAD-ka mdAG—[EN—GIN] / lu-u DI-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] / ina UGU ṭè-e-[me ša LUGAL be-lí] / iš-pur-an-ni ma-a [a-na mx x x] / šu-pur a-sap-raš-⸢šu⸣ [a-du ṭè-mu] / i-ḫar-ra-ṣu-u-⸢ni⸣ [mi-i-nu] / šá ṭè-mu-un-ni a-[na LUGAL EN-ia] / a-šá-pa-ra ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí iš-pur-an-ni] / ma-a GIŠ.til-li ur-[x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ ina URU.KÁ—bit-⸢qi⸣ [a-šur] / [ina ŠÀ] NA₄.KIŠIB-MEŠ-ka [ku-nu-uk] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334846.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334846). 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/P334846/.
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