Position in chronology
SAA 01 099. Building a Palace in Ekallate (ABL 0099)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king], my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Ešarra is well, the [temple]s are well, the Inner City is [well, Assyri]a is we[ll, may] the king, my lord, be well! (5) [As to] what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Let these [...]ians of Ekal[late ......] who are being deported build the queen's palace in [the city with the] Pal[ace Manager]", (9) the Palace Manager petiti[oned the Palace] in Shebat (XI), saying: "Let [the ...] build the palace in [......]!" Now the Inner City [... 'son]s of bought (slaves)' [......] (Break) (r 2) In the past days, when the father of [the king my…
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/P334048/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] EN-ia ARAD-ka mDÙG.GA—ṣil—[É].ŠÁR o* / [DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ É.ŠÁR.RA DI-mu [a-na É.KUR]-MEŠ* / [DI-mu] a-na URU.ŠÀ—URU ⸢DI⸣-[mu a-na KUR—aš-šur].KI / [lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia ina UGU] / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí iš-⸢pur⸣-[a-ni ma-a LÚv.x-x]-a.a / ḫa-nu-te ša URU*.É*.[GAL-MEŠ x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / ša i-na-saḫ-u-[ni TAv LÚv.GAL—É].⸢GAL*⸣ / ma-a É MÍ—É.GAL ša* [x x x li]-ir-ṣi-pu / ina ⸢ITI.ZÍZ…
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 P334048.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334048). 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/P334048/.
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