Position in chronology
SAA 15 173. Reporting on Troop Movements in Babylonia (CT 53 364)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] definite word (2) [......] They are groundless [al]legations (3) [......] ... If the Babylonian(s) (4) [... they will wr]ite and come, (5) [...]; if he (6) [...] terribly (7) [...] a detailed report (8) [...... will take c]are of (9) [......] ... as (10) [......] ... his troops (Break) (r 1) [...... co]mes (r 2) [......] the king, my lord, (r 3) [......] their forces (r 4) [......] they have removed (r 5) [...] will send a [d]etailed [report to the king, my lord]. (r 6) [Concerning the ...] about which the king, my lord, [wrote to me, ... we]nt [but has not s]ent his report [...]. (r 9) [......] this [...] (r 10) [who] came [......] (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/P313778/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-bu-tú pa-ri-iš-tú / [x x x x] ⸢dib⸣-bi la-áš-šú-te šú-nu / [x x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni šúm-ma DUMU—KÁ.DINGIR.KI / [x x x i]-⸢šap⸣-par-u-ni il-lak-u-ni / [x x x x] ⸢šúm⸣-ma šu-ú / [x x x x] ib a-ki pu-luḫ-te / [x x x x] ⸢ṭè⸣-e-mu ḫar-ṣu / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣi-in / [x x x x x]-tu-u-ni a-ki / [x x x x x x x]-⸢x⸣-ba LÚv.e-muq-qe-e-šú / [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ú⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]-⸢lak-an⸣-[ni]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313778.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313778). 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/P313778/.
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