Position in chronology
SAA 01 218. (no title) (CT 53 848)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant Išm[anni-Aššur]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (4) As to what the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "The servants [...] of the son of Za[baba-... have ...ed] eight minas [of ...] entrusted to [......]," — (9) two men [...... (Break) (r 2) Let him give to [the] king's men [......] 30 persons [......] one mina and ten [shekels of ...] retur[ned ......] agree [......]. (r 8) The king should decide between [......] and eight [minas of ...].
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/P314257/
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Transliteration
a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / ARAD-ka mḪAL*-[a-ni—aš-šur] / lu-u DI-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] / ina UGU ša LUGAL [iš-pur-a-ni] / ma-a LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ [x x x x] / ša DUMU md⸢za⸣-[ba-ba x x] / ma-a 08 MA.⸢NA⸣ [x x x x x] / ša pi-qit-[te x x x x x] / ⸢02 LÚv⸣.ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] / [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] / LÚv.ERIM—MAN-[MEŠ x x x x x] / li-di-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] / 30 ZI-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] / 01 MA.NA 10 [GÍN x x x…
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 P314257.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314257). 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/P314257/.
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