SAA 15 365. Let them Give me Troops (ABL 1188)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334779

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 15

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... t]his [......] (2) [...] him. Let the king [do] a[s he deems best]. (3) [Perhap]s the king, my lord, will sa[y: "Where] is it [deposit]ed?" It is [...] in the storehouse of [NN]. (5) [Pre]viously, when [NN] was living [ther]e, his messenger s[poke] there with my messenger [abo]ut the earlier matters, a[bout the troops] he had requested, saying, "[Let] them give me [...] m[en], and I will g[o and] conquer [......]." (12) [...] his servant [......] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x]-ni-u* ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú LUGAL ki-i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [i—su]-⸢ri⸣ LUGAL be-lí i-qa-[bi ma-a a-a-ka] / [kar]-⸢ra⸣-at ina É—ŠU.2 ša m[x x x x] / [ina] ⸢ti⸣-ma-li šal-ši—UD-me ki-⸢i⸣ [mx x x] / [ina ŠÀ]-⸢bi⸣ kam-mu-su-ni ina ŠÀ-bi [x x x] / [LÚv].A—KIN-šú TAv LÚv.A—KIN-ia ⸢id⸣-[du-bu-ub] / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ di-ib-bi pa-ni-u-te ina ⸢UGU⸣ [e-mu-qi] / [ša] e-ri-šú-ni ma-a…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334779.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334779). 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/P334779/.

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