Position in chronology
SAA 15 216. A Chaldean Switching Sides (CT 53 091)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) [...] should [......] (4) [...] he is from ther[e ......] (5) "He has made Ahi[...]-naṣir the 'third man' [... to ...] with him instead of me and does not speak with me. Now he has been inciting the men, saying: 'I will [...] and run away to the king. Let the king swear to me in the name of god; if and when the king comes to Chaldea, the king should give me all the people of mine whom I shall conquer.'" (13) [... to] me repeatedly about (14) [......] Elam (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/P313506/
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Transliteration
[x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ qu [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x] lu-ú [x x x x x x x x] / [x] TAv ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣ šú-ú [x x x x x] / [ma]-a mda-ḫi-[x]—PAB-ir LÚv.03-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [ina] ku-mu-ú-a is-si-šú ú-sa-ár-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ma-a is-si-ia la ⸢i-da⸣-ab-bu-ub ma-a / ú-ma-a ERIM-MEŠ i-sa-⸢ad⸣-bi-ib ma-a la-ad-⸢x⸣+[x] / ina UGU LUGAL ⸢la⸣-aḫ-li-qa ma-a MU DINGIR ⸢LUGAL⸣ / lu-še-li-a ⸢ma⸣-a…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313506.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313506). 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/P313506/.
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