Position in chronology
SAA 15 114. The King of Elam in the Mountain, in the Town Burati (ABL 1348)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! The city of Der and the fort are w]ell. (6) Perhaps [the king, my lord], will say: "Wha[t] is the news of the king of Elam?" The king of Elam is in the mountain, in the town Burati. He has not set out, he is still there. (12) [... to] the king, my lord (13) [......], saying: (14) [...... u]s (Break) (r 1) [......] of Assyria (r 2) [......] are attacking (r 3) [......] to the guard (r 4) [......] entered (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/P334857/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka mdUTU—EN—PAB] / [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [DI-mu a-na URU.de-ri] / ⸢DI-mu⸣ [a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU] / i—su-ri [LUGAL be-lí] / i-qa-bi ma-a mi-⸢i⸣-[nu] / ṭè-mu ša LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI / LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI ina KUR-ú / URU.bu-ra-a-ti šu-ú / ⸢la⸣ ú-na-me-sa ina ŠÀ-bi-ma šu-ú / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ía / [x x x x x x x] ma-a / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-a-ši / [x 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 P334857.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334857). 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/P334857/.
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