SAA 01 017. Contacts With Elam (CT 53 642)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314054

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] befor[e ...] (2) [......] no [...] (3) [......] still [...] (4) [......] will see, hither [...] (5) [Has the messeng]er of the Elamite [......? Have they written] to you [about ma]king [......] Lutû [...? Have they sen]t to you any [......]? (Rest too broken for translation)

Source: 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/P314054/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x x]-a ina ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x] a la ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni aḫ—ḫur [x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ e-mar a-ni-šá [x x x] / [LÚv.DUMU—šip]-⸢ri⸣ ša KUR.NIM.MA.⸢KI⸣-[a.a] / [a-na? e]-⸢pa⸣-a-še mlu-tu-⸢ú⸣ [x x x] / [is-sap-ru]-nik-ka-a me-me-[ni x x] / [us-se-bi]-⸢lu⸣-nik-ka-a [o] / [x x x x]-⸢ur⸣-pu / [x x x x x]-MEŠ 01-et A.⸢ŠÀ?⸣

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 P314054.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314054). 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/P314054/.

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