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SAA 01 025. Brick Masons and the Bull Colossi of Dur-Šarruken (ABL 1423+)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The king's wor]d to the 100 b[rick-masons]: (2) Now t[hat] you have finished [the work] in Dur-Šarruk[en], [...] the bull col[ossi ...] upon you. Just as you have been [...], this [......] the exempts ]......] the king'[s ...]. (16) Come and stand by for the [...] of Assyria, and let the chief [...], the postmen and the workers [take] care of the rest [of the ...]. (r 5) As to [... about whom you wrote to me]: "[They should order ...] to do the rest [...] delayed [...]; the exempts [...] should take up [......]. If not [...... (Rest destroyed)
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/P314026/
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Transliteration
[a]-⸢bat⸣ [LUGAL] / [a]-⸢na⸣ 01 me ú-[ra-si] / an-nu-rig ⸢dul⸣-[la-ku-nu] / ina URU.BÀD—mMAN—⸢GIN⸣ / tug-dam-me-ra [x x x] / NA₄.dALAD.⸢LAMA⸣-[MEŠ] / ina UGU-ḫi-ku-nu [x x] / ki-i ša qa-⸢li⸣-[x x x] / at-ta-nu-u-ni [x x x] / an-ni-tú ⸢ta*⸣-[x x x] / ⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x x] / LÚv.zak-ku-ú [x x x] / [x] ⸢ta?⸣ [x] nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] / li-kal-ka ⸢a⸣-[na EN.NUN?] / ša <$x$>…
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 P314026.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314026). 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/P314026/.
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