SAA 17 195. Taking Captives (CT 54 349)

~710 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P239415

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] legal case [...] (2) [...] I arrested and gave [...] to the [...] official (3) [...] 2 dependents [...] (4) [...] his [know]ledge early in the morning ... [...] (5) [... to] the bodyguard and to [...] (6) [...] I gave to Redi-ilu [...] (7) [... the ca]ptives of the Lit[amu] (8) [...] I am [in] N[u]nak (Rest destroyed)

Source: Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P239415/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x x] ⸢x di-ni⸣ [x x] ⸢x⸣ / [x x ki]-i ú-ṣab-bit a-na LÚ.[x x x] / [x at]-⸢ta⸣-din-ma? 02? ZI-tim [x x x] / [x man?]-⸢di⸣-su ka-ṣa-a-tu ú-[x x x] / [x x a-na] ⸢LÚ⸣.šá—qur-bu-tú ù a-na [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢mri-di—DINGIR⸣ at-ta-din [x x x] / [x x x x ḫu]-ub-⸢tu⸣ šá LÚ.li-⸢ta⸣-[mu x] / [x x x] ⸢URU?.nu?⸣-nak a-na-⸢ku⸣ [x x] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x]

Scholarly note

Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P239415.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P239415). source
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/P239415/.

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