Position in chronology
SAA 15 094. Return from Media; Building the Walls of Kar-Šarrukin (ABL 0126)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Mannu-ki-Ninua. [Good heal]th to the king, my lord! The land of the king my lord i[s well]. (5) [Concerning what the king], my lord, wrote to me: "[Go] to Media [wi]th the magnates!" — I went with them. [The god]s of the king provided peace, and we returned [s]afely. (10) I am (now) here in Kar-Šarrukin. I am building the grand hall with whatever bricks have been glazed, and we are cultivating the arable fields and doing our work. The king, my lord, can be glad. (16) Also, on the first day the magnates fetched from outside whatever bricks were left there, and delivered them to me. (r 6) The outer city-wall is finished and plastered. They [came c]lose to it and [pla]stered it from boats.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] be-lí-ía / [ARAD-ka m]man-nu—ki—URU.NINA / [lu-u DI]-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / [DI-mu a]-na KUR ša LUGAL be-lí-a / [ša LUGAL] EN iš-pur-an-ni / [ma-a] ⸢TAv⸣ LÚv.GAL-MEŠ a-na KUR.ma-ta-a.a / [a-lik] at-ta-lak is-si-šú-nu / [DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša LUGAL DI-mu i-sa-ak-nu / [ina] ⸢šá*⸣-li-im-te ni-is-su-ḫu-ra / ⸢a*⸣-na-ku an-na-ka ina URU.kar—mMAN—GIN / SIG₄-ḪI.A-MEŠ am—mar šaḫ-⸢ṭa*-tu*⸣-u-ni /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334074.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334074). 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/P334074/.
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