Position in chronology
SAA 15 230. Organizing the Government of Bit-Dakkuri (CT 53 238)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To the king, m]y [lord]: your servant [Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, m]y [lord]! The pac[k-animals and the se]rvants of the king are well. (3) The king, my lord, wrote to me: "[Be very atte]ntive!" At the command of the ki[ng, my lord], I have gathered [the servants o]f Bit-Dakkuri and [cla]imed authority over them. (6) Yet Nabû-taklak has al[so cla]imed authority over al[l] the servants [of ...], saying: "They should do as I command, [the house] of my lord should not exercise authority (over them)." (9) All the servants of [...] are city-dwellers; they sta[nd] before us and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ ARAD-⸢ka⸣ [mLUGAL—IGI.LAL-a-ni] / [lu DI-mu ana LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ DI-mu a-na ⸢ANŠE⸣.[a-ṣa-pi DI-mu] / [a-na LÚv].⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ ša LUGAL LUGAL EN is-[sap-ra] / [ma-a na-aḫ]-⸢ri⸣-da ina UGU pi-i ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / [LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ] ⸢ša⸣ É—mda-kur up-ta-ḫi-⸢ra⸣ / [x ú]-⸢sa⸣-áš-liṭ ù LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ gab-[bu] / [x x] ⸢x⸣ ú EN in mdPA—tak-lak-⸢ma⸣ / [ú-sa]-áš-liṭ ma-a ina UGU pi-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 P313653.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313653). 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/P313653/.
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