Position in chronology
SAA 01 132. Organizing the Cult of Dur-Šarruken (ABL 0841)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(b.e. 1) To the king, [my lord]: (2) (This is) your servant Aha-lurš[i, your adorer], who [daily] prays [to Bel and Nabû] for the life of the king, [his lord]. May Nabû and Marduk [bless the king, my lord]! (5) As to what the king my lord wrote to me: "[As soon as the work has been finished] and the god has taken his seat (in the temple), [come to my presence]!" — (7) Mardî the eunuch said: "I [shall go; instead of] your going, stay and off[iciate here so that when ......] and the god takes his seats [......], you can recite the proper formulae" — (10) I told [him], however: "Write down [in a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL [be-lí-ia] / ARAD-ka mŠEŠ—lu-⸢ur⸣-[ši ka-ri-ib-ka ša a-na] / ba-laṭ ZI-MEŠ ša LUGAL [EN-ia UD-mu-us-su d.EN dPA] / ú-ṣal-lu-u dAG dAMAR.UTU [a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu] / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni ⸢ma⸣-[a ki-i dul-lu ga-mir-u-ni] / ù DINGIR a-na šub-ti-šú ú-šib-[u-ni ma-a ina pa-ni-ia al-ka] / mmar-di-i LÚv.SAG ma-a a-na-ku-⸢ma*⸣ [la-al-lik ma-a ku-um] / at-ta tal-lak-u-ni i-ti-iz…
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 P334586.
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/P334586/..
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/P334586/.
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