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SAA 15 129. The King of Elam Goes to Bit-Bunakka; Building the Fort (CT 53 110+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the governor, my lord]: your [serva]nt [Nabû-duru-uṣur. Good health to my lord]! The ci[ty of Der and the for]t are we[ll]. (3) News o[f the king] of E[lam]: m[y messenger] whom I s[ent] to El[am] we[nt to the town Bur]ati. [On the xth day] h[e retur]ned (with this report): (6) "The king of E[la]m has set o[ut]. He has sen[t his messenger t]o Parsumaš, saying: 'Will [...]yâ mobilize? [...] against [...].' Umman-minâ the herald [... and Bu]r-Silâ [are rai]sing pro[visions for the expedition] in Bit-Bunakka. [They have written] to the son of Dal[tâ]: 'The king of Elam is coming, he is…
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/P313814/
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Transliteration
[a-na LÚv.EN.NAM be-lí-ia] ⸢ARAD⸣-ka md[PA—BÀD—PAB] / [lu DI-mu a-na be-lí-ia] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na ⸢URU⸣.[de-ri] / [DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL].⸢ṢU⸣ ṭè-mu ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL] / ⸢KUR⸣.[NIM.MA.KI LÚv.A—KIN]-⸢ia⸣ ša ina KUR.⸢NIM⸣.[MA.KI] / áš-[pur-an-ni ina URU.bu-ra]-⸢a⸣-ti it-⸢ta⸣-[lak] / šu-[tu UD x-KÁM is-su]-⸢ḫur⸣ ma-a LUGAL KUR.[NIM.MA].⸢KI⸣ / ⸢ú-tam⸣-[mi-iš LÚv.A—KIN-šú a]-na KUR.par-su-ma-áš / ⸢i-sap⸣-[ra ma-a 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 P313814.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313814). 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/P313814/.
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