Position in chronology
SAA 15 242. Submission of the City Iqbi-Bel (CT 53 237)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (2) "We shall write ...[......]. It is a town outside the border; [......] will not go [...]. (4) "When ...[......], the centres of all his cities [...]. They washed [the fac]es of the people with water [...]. (7) [NN will h]ear that this village has been captured, (and) [...] the whole city of Iqbi-Bel will give their word t[o the servant of the k]ing, my lord. (9) The town Rahbâ [...] (10) [...] one league [from the v]illage as far as [...] (11) [NN] the prefect, accompanied by my prefects (12) [......] town [...] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x]-⸢bi ta la x x x x⸣ [x x x x] / [x]-⸢ú⸣ ma-a ni-šap-par kit-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x]-u URU ša qa-ni ta-ḫu-me šu-u ⸢x⸣ [x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣-mu-e la il-lak ma-a ki-i su-⸢ḫi⸣-[x x] / [x x]-⸢ni⸣ ma-a MURUB₄-MEŠ ša URU-MEŠ-ni-šú gab-bu ⸢ma⸣ [x] / [x x]-⸢ni⸣-MEŠ ša UN-MEŠ A-MEŠ in-ta-si-ʾu ⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x i]-⸢šá⸣-me-u ki-i URU.ŠE an-ni-u ṣa-bit-u-ni [o] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ URU.iq-bi—⸢EN⸣ gab-bu pi-i-šú-nu…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313652.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313652). 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/P313652/.
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