Position in chronology
SAA 17 142. Puqudeans in the Marshes Should be Deported (ABL 1052)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(Beginning destroyed) (1) Let the vizier send a bribe to the governor that he should deport them. The messengers of the Puqudeans, who live in the Qatannu marsh, go daily to the son of Yakin. The vizier may also write to the governor that he should lead Sagibi-ilu, the Amukanean who lives in Bit-re'î, to them. If he delivers them into the hands of the vizier, my lord, he is a servant of the vizier. (r 2) If, (on the other hand), he does not deliver them into the hands of my lord, then my lord may know that his heart is not with my lord. (r 5) As to my lord's sending Ṣalamu to Nabû-ušabši, I…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ṭa-a-⸢ti⸣ LÚ.⸢SUKKAL⸣ [a]-na LÚ.[EN.NAM] / liš-pur-ma li-⸢is*-suḫ*⸣-šú-nu-tú / LÚ.pu-qu-da-a.a šá ina AMBAR qa-tan-nu / áš-bu UD-mu-us-su LÚ.A—KIN-MEŠ-šú-nu / a-na pa-an DUMU—mia-ki-ni il-la-ku / LÚ.SUKKAL a-na LÚ.EN.NAM liš-pur-ma / msa₁₆-gi-bi—DINGIR LÚ.am-ka-nu-ú-a / šá ina É—LÚ.SIPA-i áš-bu / šú-ú a-na UGU-[ḫi]-šú-nu / li-ir-di-iš ki-i / ina ŠU.2 LÚ.SUKKAL be-lí-ía in-da-ni-šú-nu-tú / ARAD šá…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P334701.
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/P334701/..
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/P334701/.
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