SAA 15 123. Transporting Logs and Hauling a Threshold Stone (ABL 0581)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334400

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 15

High confidence

(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant [Šamaš-belu-uṣur]. Good health to my lord! (4) For the third month (now) I am transporting logs from Argada. I have brought [x] logs to the river bank but have not yet finished (the task). (9) [...] have been reinforced (Break) (r 1) [...] another [body]guard came, saying: "Raise 400 door-beams and haul a threshold stone from Yasubu on your own" — I will execute the work that the king commanded.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] / ARAD-ka m[dUTU—EN—PAB] / lu DI-mu a-⸢na EN⸣-ía / 03-šú ITI GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ / TA ŠÀ URU.ar-ga-da / a-za-bíl : a-na UGU ÍD / [x] GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ uq-ṭa-ri*-bi / [ú-di-ni] la ú-ga-mar / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ : da-nu-nu / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a [x x] / [LÚv.qur]-bu-te 02-ú ⸢i*⸣-tal-⸢ka*⸣ / [ma-a] 04 me GIŠ.ŠÚ.A-MEŠ mu-ut-ḫu / ma-a NA₄.I.DIB ú-di-ka / TA ŠÀ KUR.ia-su-pi šu-du / dul-lu ša LUGAL i-qa-bu-ni / le-pu-šu

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334400.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334400). 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/P334400/.

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