Position in chronology
SAA 15 235. We Cannot Report Because of the King’s Work (CT 53 342)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (r 2) [The work is a great burden] on us. [Beca]use of the king [our] lord's work we have not come [and subm]itted a report to the house of our lord. (r 6) The king [our] lord [should kno]w (this).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] / [dul-lu] ina UGU-ḫi-⸢ni⸣ [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] / [ina] UGU dul-li ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ be-lí-[ni] / ⸢a?⸣-ni-ni la ni-⸢il*-li*⸣-ka [o] / ⸢ṭè⸣-e-mu ina É—EN-e-ni / [la nu]-⸢te-re⸣ LUGAL be-lí-[ni] / [lu-u ú]-⸢di⸣
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313757.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313757). 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/P313757/.
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