Position in chronology
SAA 05 047. Having Mares Serviced (ABL 0757)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The pack animals of the king, my lord, are well; the subjects of the king, my lord, are well; the land of Bit-Zamani is well. (9) I will have the m[ar]es serviced until [Tam]muz (IV); in between the urging of the herds to the mares, I am cutting hay. (r 1) On the 15th of Tammuz I would like to come and see the face of the king, my lord, (about) my work — (r 5) Perhaps I am lagging behind my colleagues; I should inspect my work i[n] Dur-Šarruken.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ARAD-ka mLUGAL—IGI.LAL-a-ni / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / DI-mu a-na a-ṣa-pi-⸢MEŠ*⸣ / ša LUGAL EN-ía / DI-mu a-na LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ / ša LUGAL EN-ía / DI-⸢mu a⸣-na KUR.É—za-ma-ni / a-du ⸢ITI*.ŠU*⸣ MÍ*.⸢ANŠE*.KUR*⸣.RA* / ú-šar-kab / Ú.pu-e / a-na-kis / a-na bir-te ra-da*-bi / ša bu-li / a-na MÍ.ANŠE.KUR.RA / a-na 15 ša ITI.ŠU / la-al-li-ka / IGI-MEŠ* ša LUGAL EN-ía / la-⸢mur?⸣ KIN-i / i—su-ri / bir-ti me-eḫ-ri-⸢ía*⸣ / a-ma-ra-kù* / dul-li / ⸢ina* URU⸣.BÀD—LUGAL—i*-⸢ku?⸣ / ⸢la⸣-mur
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334534.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334534/..
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/P334534/.
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