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SAA 05 058. Raising Bull Colossi in Adia (ABL 1419)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] he is [...] (2) he [......] (3) [th]ey are bringing to him [......] (4) [......] (5) [Pe]rhaps [the king, my lord], will say: (7) "[How] are you doing [the w]ork?" (8) [...] to finish it (9) [...] I am raising (10) [...] Adia (11) [...] bull colossi (12) [I] shall h[aul ......] (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/P334896/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] šú-u-tú / [x x x x x] šú-u / [x x x ub]-bal-u-ni-šú / [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]-at / [x x x is]—su-ur-ri / [LUGAL be-lí] i-qab-bi / [ma-a a-ke-e] ⸢dul₆*⸣-lu te-pa-áš / [x x x] ⸢a⸣-na ga-ma-ri-šú* / [x x x] ú-šá-da-ba / [x x x] ⸢URU*⸣.a-di-a / [x x NA₄].⸢d⸣ALAD.dLAMA-MEŠ / [x x x a-šá]-⸢da⸣-da
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334896.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334896). 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/P334896/.
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