SAA 15 270. Fragment Concerning a Prebend (CT 53 627)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314039

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [...] La[...] (r 2) [has s]eized [......] (r 3) [......] his face [...] Eṭiru (r 4) saying, "Why does Bel-iddina stand [...]?" (r 5) Now t[hen I am] no[t giving] the prebend to anybody until the king, my lord, comes to [...] and settles the matter between [us].

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/P314039/

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Transliteration

[x x x]-⸢nu mla-x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢iṣ⸣-ṣa-bat e-[x x x x] / [m]⸢e⸣-ṭè-ri pa-ni-šú [x x x x] / ⸢ma⸣-a a-ta-a mEN—AŠ-ma [x x x] / iz-za-az ú-ma-a ⸢an⸣-[nu-rig] / GIŠ.ŠUB.BA a-na me-me-ni ⸢la⸣ [x x x] / a-du bé-et LUGAL EN ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / il-la-kan-ni ina bir-tu-[un-ni] / ú-kan-nu-u-ni

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P314039.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314039). 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/P314039/.

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