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SAA 05 026. No Water in the River (CT 53 213)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) has been sending [...] (3) you cam[e ...] (Break) (9) [Because] it has neither rained nor snowed [...], the[re is] no water in the river. (r 2) Ever since I ca[me] (back) from the [king], my lord, and cros[sed] (the river), I have been at ease [...]. (r 6) 3,000 door-bea[ms ......] (Rest destroyed)
Source: Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P313628/
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Transliteration
[x x] ⸢aš a⸣ [x x x] / ⸢i-sa-ta-par⸣ [x x x] / ⸢ta⸣-ta-al-[ka x x] / ⸢am x⸣ ra [x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x]-MEŠ [x x x x] / ⸢mu⸣ [x x x x x x] / ud [x x x x x x] / a [x x x x x x] / la-a zi-⸢i⸣-[nu] / la-a ku-up-⸢pu⸣ / i-zi-nu-nu-[ni] / A-MEŠ ina ÍD la-[áš-šú] / TA É : TA [IGI LUGAL] / EN-ia al-[lik-u-ni] / e-bi-ru-[u-ni o] / né-ḫa-ku ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / 03 lim GIŠ.⸢ŠÚ⸣.[A-MEŠ x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313628.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313628). source
Translation excerpted from Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P313628/.
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