Position in chronology
SAA 19 108. Raising Barley from Babylonian Cities (CTN 5 p. 34)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 19(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ. Good health to (the king,) my lord! (4) Concerning the barley which the king, my lord, sent me for, when I set out from the king, my lord, I entered [Cut]ha and Sippar and I stayed two days in Babylon but the barley of Ṣil-Bel was not available. I could not go near it until Mušezib-Ilu came from Kar-Aššur. (r 7) I towed the boats and went a day’s march below Cutha. (r 10) On the 23rd I will set out and put in place the barley of Cutha.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka ma-ši-pa-a / lu-ú DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ <LUGAL> be-lí-ía / ina UGU ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL / be-lí iš-pur-an-ni-ni / TAv pa-an LUGAL be-lí-ía / ša ⸢ú-nam⸣-mi-ša-an-ni / ⸢a⸣-na ⸢URU⸣.[ku]-⸢ti⸣-u / ⸢a⸣-na ⸢URU.si-par⸣ / e-ta-⸢ár⸣-ba / 02-ta UD-MEŠ ina TIN.TIR.KI / ka-mu-⸢sa⸣-ak [o] / ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša mGIŠ.MI—d⸢EN⸣ / la qu-⸢ur⸣-ba-ti / la aq-⸢ri-ib⸣ / a-⸢du m⸣mu-še-zib—DINGIR / ⸢TAv…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393650.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P393650). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P393650/.
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