Position in chronology
SAA 01 019. Dealing With the Puqudu (ABL 1328)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (1) hi[ther ......] (2) the Puqu[dean ......] (3) and because of [......] (4) Now he is in the city of [......] at your disposal. (6) I am wr[iting to you] right [now: the day you] see this [letter of mine, go and tell] these words [to ...]. He should set out and go [to ...] in accordance with the report, [and tell him]: "I have re[ceived] the following royal order: '[......] have set [......" (Break) (r 2) "[......] which [......] have robbed [......]; now if [......] has been made, [......]; and if t[hese] servants [......], why [should] I [......]? You w[rote that ......] are making [......].'" (r 10) Now then [......] who [......] to his messenger [......] the order in [......] several times [...... (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ḫa-an-ni-[šá x x x x x x] / LÚv.pu-qu-[da-a.a x x x] / ù TAv pa-ni [x x x x x x] / ú-ma-a ina URU.⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ina pa-ni-ku-nu šu-⸢ú⸣ [x x x x x ú-ma-a] / an-nu-rig a-sap-[ra-ku-nu UD-mu ša e-gír-tú] / an-ni-tú ta-am-⸢mar⸣-[u-ni x x] / di-ib-bi an-nu-⸢ti⸣ [x x x x] / ina pi-i ṭè-e-⸢mu⸣ [x x x x] / lu-nam-mì-iš lil-⸢lik⸣ [x x x x] / ma-a a-bat LUGAL at-[ta-ḫar x x x] / is-sak-nu [x x x x x x…
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 P334849.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334849/..
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/P334849/.
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