Position in chronology
SAA 15 345. What are You Doing? (CT 53 395)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...] have done [...] (3) [... in] Tishri (VII) [...] (4) [the king, m]y [lord] w[rote ...] (Break) (7) Perha[ps the king, my lord, w]ill say: "[What are you] doing?" (r 2) [...] I (r 3) [...] On the 15th day (r 4) [...] I shall finish ... (r 5) [...] I shall give them [the p]rice (Rest destroyed)
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/P313809/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x]-⸢ram⸣-me [x x] / [x x x] ⸢e⸣-tap-šú ⸢ŠÁM⸣ [x] / [x x x] ⸢ITI⸣.DUL [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢ni⸣ is [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] ú [x x x x] / [x x x x] ⸢i—su⸣-[ri] / [LUGAL be-lí i]-qab-bi [o] / [ma-a mi-nu te]-ep-pa-áš / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na-ku / [x x x x] UD 15-KÁM / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣip-te ú-ga-mar / [x x x] ⸢ŠÁM⸣ ad-da-na-šú-nu / [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313809.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313809). 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/P313809/.
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