SAA 15 153. (no title) (CT 53 673)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314084

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (2) [... t]his [...] (3) [... l]et them send 40 able-bodied men [...] (4) ...[...] (5) [... in] their house [...] (6) [... t]o the town of the vizier [...] (7) [...] this [...] und[er] (8) [...] Dam[uneans] (9) [......] on [...] (Rest destroyed)

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/P314084/

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Transliteration

[x x x x] ⸢a x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢an⸣-ni-ti ⸢x x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x] ⸢40⸣ ERIM-MEŠ SIG₅-[MEŠ] / [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣-še-bi-lu ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x] / [x x x x] É-šú-nu-ma [x x] / [x x x a]-⸢na⸣ URU—LÚv.SUKKAL ⸢na⸣-[x] / [x x x x] ⸢an⸣-ni-ti ina ⸢šap⸣-[la] / [x x x x x] ⸢LÚv⸣.da-⸢mu?⸣-[na-a.a] / [x x x x x] ina UGU [x x x] / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ LÚv.[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 P314084.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314084). 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/P314084/.

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