SAA 15 142. The Men Here do not Suffice for the Forts! (ABL 0868)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334596

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [... g]ave [...]. (3) [I am herewith s]ending her [to the king], my lord. (5) Further: the legate of Der has written to me: "Send me 2,000 men!" But the men from here do not suffice (even) for the fortresses! Whence should I take the men to send to him?

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/P334596/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x x x]-an-ni [o] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ta-na-⸢x⸣+[x] / [ina IGI LUGAL] be-lí-ia / [ú-se]-bi-la-áš-ši / ù LÚv.qe-e-pu / ša URU.de-e-ri / is-sa-pa-ra ma-a / 02 lim LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / še-bi-la ù ERIM-MEŠ / TAv an-na-ka / a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ / la i-sa-pi-qu / TAv a*-a-ka ERIM-MEŠ / lu-še-bi-la-áš-šú

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334596.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334596). 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/P334596/.

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