Position in chronology
SAA 15 102. City-Lord Runs Away to Šaparda (CT 53 895)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] of the city Ur[iakka ...] (2) [...l]î, the city-lord [of ...], the one who was placed [......] instead of [NN, ....... has run away] to Šaparda. (6) [......] they have not agreed (7) [......] to give (8) [......] no [on]e of them has come [......]. (10) [......] of Daltâ (11) [......] does not accept (12) [......] I came (13) [......] until my presence (r 1) [......] is established [in] the country (r 2) [...... the]reafter my tribute (r 3) [...... th]e deportees (r 4) [who .....], their houses, (r 5) [their ...], their stored corn, (r 6) [...... th]eir [...] from [Pa]rsua (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/P314304/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ URU.ur-⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x mx]-⸢li⸣-i LÚv.EN-URU / [x x x x x] ⸢šu⸣-u-tú ša ina ku-⸢ú⸣-[me] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ iš-ši-ki-nu-[ni] / [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-na KUR.šá-bar-⸢du⸣ / [x x x x x] ⸢la⸣ im-ma-gu-⸢ru⸣ / [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-na ta-da-⸢ni⸣ / [x x x 01-en]-ma TAv ⸢ŠÀ-bi⸣-šú-nu / [x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ la il-[li]-ka / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša mdal-ta-a / [x x x x]-ni la i-maḫ-ḫar / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-an-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 P314304.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314304). 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/P314304/.
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