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SAA 05 238. Buying Ungelded Bulls (ABL 0903)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To] the king, my lord: your [servant] Mannu-ki-Adad. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the [unge]lded oxen [about which] the king, my lord, [wrot]e me (Break) (r 1) [As to what the king, my lord wrote me]: "Buy [... fr]om the Itu'eans with silver!" — we are buying (them).
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/P334616/
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Transliteration
[a-na] LUGAL EN-ia / [ARAD]-ka mman-nu—ki—10 / ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL / ⸢EN⸣-ia ina UGU GUD-MEŠ / [šak]-⸢la*⸣-lu-tu / [ša] LUGAL BE.LUM / [iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni / [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣ / [TAv] pa-an LÚv.i-tú-ʾa-a.[a] / ina ŠÀ KUG.UD li-qi-a / ni-la-qi <$x$> / <$x$>
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334616.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334616). 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/P334616/.
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