SAA 05 208. (no title) (CT 53 527)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313940

Translation · reference

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) As to the [......] (2) equipment t[o ......], (3) the royal bodyguar[d ......] (4) with the depu[ty ......] (5) cam[e ......] (6) took [......] (7) which [......] (8) hors[e(s) ......] (Reverse too broken for translation)

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/P313940/

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Transliteration

UGU ⸢LÚv.x⸣+[x x x x x] / til-li a-[na x x x x] / LÚv.qur-bu-[te x x x x] / TAv LÚv.02-[e x x x x] / i-tal-⸢ku⸣-[ni x x x x] / iš-šú-u-ni [x x x x x] / ša i-[x x x x x x] / ANŠE.KUR.[RA x x x x x] / ⸢an⸣ [x x x x x x x] / i-[x x x x x x x] / la [x x x x x x x] / a-⸢ki⸣ [x x x x x x] / ⸢ak⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x 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 P313940.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313940). 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/P313940/.

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