Position in chronology
SAA 15 151. Giving Master Builders to the Magnates (CT 53 061)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN]. Good [health to the king, my lord]! (4) Concerning [what the king, my lord], wrote me: "Give [master builders] to [the magnates] who have no master builders; let [them ...]!" — there are six mas[ter builders] with me, and [we] are doing the king's work. From the beginning I have constantly been writing to Bad[â] and Lans[î]: "[Everybody] should bring a m[aster builder] for his work assignment, not one master builder should [be missing]!" (19) The king, my lord, [knows] that there is a runaw[ay] master builder, a Kassi[te], in our presence. I have…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka mx x x x x] / lu [DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / ina UGU [ša LUGAL be-lí] / iš-pur-an-[ni ma-a LÚv.TIN-MEŠ] / di-i-ni a-⸢na⸣ [LÚv.GAL-MEŠ] / ša LÚv.TIN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú-nu] / la-áš-šú-ni lu [qur-bu?] / 06 šú-nu LÚv.⸢TIN⸣-[MEŠ] / ša i-se-e-a [x x] / ⸢dul₆⸣-lu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ / [né]-pa-áš TA ⸢SAG⸣ / [ina] UGU mba-⸢da⸣-[a] / ina UGU mla-an-⸢si⸣-[i] / a-sa-ta-bar mu-[ku ia-mut-tu] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313476.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313476). 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/P313476/.
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