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SAA 05 111. Report on Timber Transport (ABL 0490)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) On the third day, 470 beams were available on the river bank. (3) 100 men of the Ukkeans, 30 men of Ariye, 30 men of Arizâ, in all 60 men of the Kummeans, all together 160 men are transporting the beam[s] to Ura with Aššur-reṣuwa.
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/P334337/
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Transliteration
04 me 70 GIŠ.ÙR-MEŠ / UD 03-KÁM ina UGU ÍD qur-bu / 01 me LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ ša KUR.ú-ka-a.a / 30 ša ma-ri-e / 30 ša mú-ri-za-a / PAB 60 ERIM-MEŠ ša URU.ku-ma-a.a / PAB 01 me 60 ERIM-MEŠ / TAv maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / ina ŠÀ URU.ú-ra / ⸢GIŠ.ÙR⸣-[MEŠ] i-za-bi-lu
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334337.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334337). 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/P334337/.
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