Position in chronology
SAA 15 058. Submission of Bit-Kapsi (CT 53 310)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To] the k[ing, my lord: your servant NN]. Good health to the k[ing, my lord]! (3) Concerning what the king, m[y] lord, [wrote to me]: "The chief of trade has to[ld me]: 'Bit-Kapsi of Ki[...] has not [submitted] to the command of the king, my lord'" — now (as to) what the chief of trade [said], let the king, my lord, ask and investig[ate: ...] (9) some 20 men [......] (Break) (r 2) they give [......] (r 3) he said [......] (r 4) has not settled [......] (r 5) from my presence [......] (r 6) [Concerning] the town Piusi [about which the king, my lord], wrote to me: "[......] (r 8) the district [......] (r 9) [m]en of the tow[n ......] (r 10) [......] (e. 1) [...] there are 100, he [......] (e. 2) [...] is left, I cultivat[e ...]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia ARAD-ka mx x x x] / lu DI-mu ⸢a-na LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia] / ina UGU ša LUGAL EN-⸢li⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni] / ma-a LÚv.GAL—ka-a-ri iq-[ṭí-bi-a] / ma-a KUR.É—kap-si ša URU.ki-[x x x] / ša pe-e ša LUGAL EN-ia la [iḫ-ta-an-šá] / ú-ma-a ša LÚv.GAL—ka-a-⸢ri⸣ [x x x] / LUGAL EN-li liš-ʾa-al ⸢lu-ṣi⸣-[ṣi x x] / ⸢LÚv⸣.ERIM-MEŠ ⸢20⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / i-du-nu [x x x 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 P313725.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313725). 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/P313725/.
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