Position in chronology
SAA 15 115. The King of Elam is in the Mountain (ABL 0800)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king], my [lo]rd: [your servant] Šamaš-belu-uṣur. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! The city of Der and the fort [are well]. (6) [Perhaps] the king, my lord, [will say: "Any new]s of the king of Elam?" He is in the mountain. (9) [......] When (Break) (r 1) [...... incr]eased (r 2) [...... mu]ch (r 3) [......] the king, my lord (r 4) [...... to]day (r 5) [......] ... (r 6) [......] does (r 7) [...... the ...]nians (r 8) [...] they are [...] (r 9) [Concerning what the king, my lord], wrote to me (r 10) [......] before them (r 11) [......] are excellent (r 12) two [...]... (r 13) [...] did (r 14) [......]
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/P334562/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be]-lí-ía / [ARAD-ka m]dUTU—EN—PAB / [lu-u DI-mu a]-na LUGAL EN-ía / [DI-mu a-na] URU.de-ri / [DI-mu a-na] URU.ḪAL.ṢU / [is—su-ri] LUGAL be-lí / [i-qab-bi ma-a] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI / [mi-i-nu ṭè-en]-⸢šu⸣ ina KUR-ú šu-ú / [x x x x x] a—ki-ma / [x x x x x x x]-še / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x in-ti?]-⸢i-du⸣ / [x x x x x x ma]-aʾ-da / [x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ BE*-ía / [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 P334562.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334562). 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/P334562/.
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