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SAA 01 221. Killing and Collecting Locusts (ABL 0910)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To Nabû-duri-uṣur, my lord: your servant Rimutte. Good health to my lord! (4) They wrote to me from the Palace: "Write down all the locusts that you collect and all that you kill, and send (the information) to the Palace!" Now then I am writing it down and sending it to my lord. (10) [x] homers (at) the city of Apku including its villages, [...]... as well as [...] the village ......[...]; (13) 15 homers (= 3,000 litres) (at) the city of [...]banu [including its villages; x] homers (at) the city of Ṭabtaia [...... (Break) (r 1) ......] between [......]. When they were few, we collected…
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/P334621/
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Transliteration
a-na mdPA—BÀD—PAB EN-ia / ARAD-ka mri-mu-te / lu DI-mu a-na EN-ia / TAv ŠÀ É.GAL i-sa-par-u-ni / ma-a er-bi-ú am—mar te*-si-pa-ni / am—mar ta-du-ka-ni šu-ṭur-ra / ina É.GAL še-bi-la-ni / ⸢ú*⸣-ma-a an-nu-rig a-sa-ṭa-ra / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi EN-ia ú-se-bi-la / [x] ⸢ANŠE*⸣ URU*.ap-ku a-di URU.ŠE*-MEŠ-ni-šú / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣi-ni i-se-niš / [x ANŠE] URU*.ŠE 01 a-na-ku 1 AN* / [x x x]-⸢ku?⸣-u*-ni* 15* ANŠE*…
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 P334621.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334621). 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/P334621/.
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