Position in chronology
SAA 01 203. Measurements of Doors (ABL 0457)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) Height[ 1]3 cubits (6,5 m), width four cubits (2 m): the main building. (2) Height [x cubits], width four cubits: the small building. (3) Height [x cubits], width three cubits and a span: four double(-door)s; (4) Height [x cubits] and a span, width three cubits: two ditto; (5) [In all eight] double-doors. (6) Heig[ht x cubits], (width) three cubits and a span: one single (door); (7) [Height x cubits], width three cubits: 12 ditto; (8) [Height x cubits], width three cubits: 15 ...; (r 1) [In all 28] single doors. (r 2) [Total 36] doors.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢13⸣ KÙŠ mu-lu-u 04 KÙŠ DAGAL É—dan-ni / [x KÙŠ] mu-lu-u 04 KÙŠ DAGAL É qàl-lu / [x KÙŠ] mu-lu-u 03 KÙŠ ru-ṭu DAGAL 04-šú ta-ʾu-ma-te / [x KÙŠ] ru-ṭu mu-lu-u 03 KÙŠ DAGAL 02-šú KI.MIN / [PAB 08] GIŠ.IG-MEŠ ta-ʾu-ú-ma-a-te / [x KÙŠ mu]-lu-u 03 KÙŠ ru-ṭu 01 DIL-ni-tú / [x KÙŠ mu-lu-u] 03 KÙŠ DAGAL 12 : / [x KÙŠ mu-lu-u] 03 KÙŠ DAGAL 15 ku-si-mat / [PAB 28 GIŠ].⸢IG⸣-MEŠ DIL-na-te / [PAB 36] ⸢GIŠ⸣.IG-MEŠ
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P334317.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334317). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334317/.
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