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SAA 01 145. Measurements of Bull Colossi (CT 53 327)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord]: your [servant Šamaš-upahhir]. Good he[alth to the king, my lord]! (3) As to [the measurements] of the b[ull coloss]i about which the king [my lord wrote to] me, the length of the first bu[ll colossus] is [x] and a half royal [cubits], [its] widt[h is x]; from the length and the width [x] cubits and a half have been finished. (11) [Another] colossus: [length is] 9.5 cubits; from its other side t[o the r]iver [......] cubits [...... (Break) (r 1) [a bull colossus: length is x cubits], width [x cubits]; (r 2) a bull colossus: [length] 10.[5 cubits], width 5 cubits;…
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/P313742/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ [mdUTU—ú-pa-ḫír] / ⸢lu⸣-u ⸢DI⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / ina UGU [na-ma-da-a-te] / ša ⸢NA₄⸣.[dALAD.dLAMA]-MEŠ / ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí iš-pur-an]-ni / 01-en NA₄.⸢d⸣[ALAD.dLAMA x ina 01 KÙŠ]—MAN / ru-ṭu : GÍD.DA-šú ⸢DAGAL⸣-[šú x x] / TAv ŠÀ GÍD.DA TAv ŠÀ ⸢DAGAL⸣ [x x] / [x ina] ⸢01⸣ KÙŠ ru-ṭu gam*-ru ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [01-en] ⸢NA₄⸣.:. <(dALAD.dLAMA)> 09 ina 01 KÙŠ ru-ṭu /…
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 P313742.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313742). 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/P313742/.
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