Position in chronology
SAA 01 237. A Harmful Petition (CT 53 072)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (1) (So) he has petitioned [the king], my [lord! ...] Should he have turned to me, I would have handled [his case]! He should have come [to me and] not turned [to the king, my lord]! Let the king, my lord, ask [...] if Nabû-uṣalla r[eally] is doing the king's work! Now [in a case] he is pleading he goes and petitions [the king]! This person fears the king with [his lips], but with [......] the king's work falls behind schedule, and [the king my lord] is going to kill me because of it! (12) Indeed, [as regards the straw and] the reeds I sent [...] to them [......] here…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / [EN]-⸢ia⸣ it-ta-⸢aḫ⸣-[ra x x x] / ⸢a⸣.a-ši lu i-ḫu-ra-an-⸢ni⸣ [de-en-šú] / ⸢lu⸣ e-pu-uš lu il-⸢li⸣-[ka a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / ⸢la⸣ i-ḫu-ur : LUGAL be-lí ⸢a⸣-[na x x] / ⸢liš⸣-al : ma-a mdPA—ú-ṣal-la ⸢i⸣-[ba-áš-ši] / ⸢dul⸣-lum ša LUGAL e-pa-a-šá an-nu-⸢ri⸣ [de-nu] / ⸢ša⸣ i-da-bu-bu-ni il-la-⸢ka⸣ [a-na LUGAL] / ⸢EN⸣-ia i-maḫ-ḫar šu-ú-tú ⸢TAv⸣ [x x x] / [a-na] LUGAL…
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 P313487.
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/P313487/..
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/P313487/.
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