Position in chronology
SAA 17 084. King of Assyria About to Enter Babylon (ABL 0588)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (1) [The ...] will return 20 [...]. "The troops of the king of Akkad and the king of Elam did not stand up before the king of Assyria." (5) And if he goes to Babylon, let my brother not tarry entering and be not negligent but care for the future and enter Babylon quickly. When he has entered Babylon, he will have set foot on the centre of the lands. And after it, he will achieve his objective. (r 3) All the people of Bit-Dakuri have left the cities and gone into the marshes. Countless barley and dates have been left back. Horses should go and stay (there) because of this.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ / 20 ⸢ú?-tar*-ru?⸣ um*-ma ⸢ERIM⸣-MEŠ LUGAL KUR—⸢URI*.KI*⸣ / ⸢ù⸣ LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.⸢KI⸣ i-na pa-an / LUGAL KUR—d<aš>-šur.KI ⸢ul⸣ iz-zi-zu / ù ki-i a-na KÁ.⸢DINGIR.RA⸣.KI / il-la-ka TU ba*-ṭa*-lu* / ù na-de-e a-⸢ḫi ŠEŠ⸣-ú-a / la i-raš-ši a-na ár*-ka*-a-a / liš-kun-ma ḫa-an-ṭiš a-na TIN.TIR.KI / li-ru-ba ki-i šá* a-na / KÁ.DINGIR.RA.⸢KI⸣ i-ter-ba / MURUB₄ šá KUR.KUR…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P237978.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237978/..
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237978/.
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