Position in chronology
SAA 01 063. Towing Logs to Nineveh (CT 53 156)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) "We shall go [......]; I have [...] the river [......] heavy logs [......]." (4) I asked him: "Where [are they deposited? Those which] we cannot tow [to ......] not to [......] the Inner City [......]"? (8) His servants said: "From where the distant logs are being stored the river is navigable as far as the Inner City; from the Inner City to Nineveh it is difficult." (13) The Governor of the Land told me: "I'll first (stay) ten days here, [then ......] which during [......] Labdudu [.......]." (17) On the 1st of Tishri (VII), [when] the earlier [...] arrived in the…
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/P313571/
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Transliteration
ni-il-⸢lak⸣ [x x x x x x] / ÍD ub-ta-⸢x⸣-[x x x x x] / GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ [x x x x x] / a-sa-al-šú ⸢nu⸣-[uk] a-a-ka [kar-ru x x] / ša la mu-⸢qa-a⸣-[ni a-na x x x x x] / la ni-šad-[da-du-ni x] ma [x x]-MEŠ-e / la a-na [x x x x x x x] ⸢URU⸣.[ŠÀ]—URU / a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x x] ⸢di ARAD⸣-MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ / ki-⸢i⸣ [an-ni-e iq]-⸢ṭí-bi*⸣-u ma-a TAv É / GIŠ.⸢ÙR-MEŠ pa⸣-ti-u-te kar-ru-ni / a-di URU.[ŠÀ]—⸢URU ÍD…
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 P313571.
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/P313571/..
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/P313571/.
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