Position in chronology
SAA 15 219. The Son of Zeri in Uruk (ABL 0314)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! The fort is well. (5) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "What is the news of the son of Zerî?" Previously they told me that he has gone to the Puqudu. Now the second time they have told me that he is in Uruk. My messenger has gone to Sapia; after he has come back, I shall send a full report [to the king, my lord], wh[atever n]ews [there is. The king], m[y lord, can be] very [glad]. (15) [The mes]senger (Break) (r 2) [......] tax (r 3) [...] Adinni (r 4) [...]... there are fifty who came here and are building houses for themselves. I told them: "Everybody should build himself a house, enter it, and live in his house."
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mMAN—IGI.LAL-an-ni / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / DI-mu a-na URU.bir-te / i—su-ri LUGAL EN i-qa-bi / ma-a mì-nu ṭè-mu ša DUMU—mNUMUN-i / pa-nu-tú iq-ṭí-bu-ni ma-a ina KUR.pu-qu-di / i-ta-lak ú-ma-a ú-sa-ni-ʾu-u / iq-ṭí-bu-ni ma-a ina URU.ú-ru-uk / šu-u LÚv.A—KIN-ia ina URU.sa-pi-a / i-ta-lak ki-ma i-tal-ka / ⸢mì⸣-[nu ša] ⸢ṭè⸣-mu-ni ba-te-iq-tú / [a-na LUGAL EN-ia]…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334202.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334202). 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/P334202/.
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