Position in chronology
SAA 01 154. Soldiers Idling Time Away in Calah (CT 53 829)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) The [troops] who a[rrived ...] and have been resid[ent] in [...] are loitering in the center of Calah with their riding horses like [...] common criminals and drunkards. (r 5) What does my lord say? [Let my lord quickly send an answ]er to my letter!
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/P314238/
Why it matters
Transliteration
šu-[x x x x] / LÚv.[x x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] / im-[qu-tu-u-ni] / ina ⸢URU⸣.[x x x] / kam-[mu-su-ni] / a-ki ⸢ša⸣ [x x x]-di / LÚv.⸢LUL⸣-[MEŠ] / LÚv.šá-ki-ru-tú / ANŠE.pet-ḫal-lu / i-si-šu-nu / ina qab-si URU.kal-ḫi / i-du-u-lu / mi-nu ša be-lí / i-qa-bu-u-ni / [gab-ru]-ú ša e-gir-te / [be-lí ár-ḫiš liš-pu-ra]
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 P314238.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314238). 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/P314238/.
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