Position in chronology
SAA 15 164. Skirmishes at Dur-Kurigalzu; King Approaching (CT 53 005)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To the k]ing, my lord: [yo]ur [servant] Il-yada[']. Go[od heal]th to the king, [my] lord! The lan[d] and the forts of the king my lord are well. The king, my lord, can be glad. (8) A [...] of [x] mou[n]ted men from Dur-Kurigalzu was in [...]. I [...]ed them [with ......] of the town [...r]ani. (12) Of the 200 men of (13) [...] my [...] (14) anxiety before them (Break) (r 3) went and [reported back]: (r 4) "The people [...] have got scared and go[ne] to the other side of the river. Nobody is left on this side of the river." (r 9) I heard it being reported of the king, my lord: "The king…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ mDINGIR—ia-da-⸢aʾ⸣ / ⸢lu⸣-[u DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na LUGAL be-lí-[ía] / ⸢DI-mu⸣ a-na ma-a-⸢ti⸣ / URU.bi-ra-a-⸢te⸣ / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí-⸢ía⸣ ŠÀ-bu / [ša LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí-ía ⸢lu⸣ DÙG.GA-šú / KUR.⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢ša*⸣ [x] ERIM-MEŠ / ⸢rak?-ku?-bu?-ti⸣ ša BÀD—mku-ri-gal-⸢zi⸣ / ⸢ina x x⸣ ana-ku ⸢TA? x⸣-MEŠ / ⸢du?-nu? ša?⸣ URU.⸢x⸣+[x]-⸢ra⸣-a-ni / ⸢bu x x⸣-šú-nu ⸢ša* 2?-me?…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313420.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313420). 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/P313420/.
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