Position in chronology
SAA 05 269. Delivery of Barley (CT 53 324)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: y]our [servant NN. Go]od health [to the king, my lord]! (4) [As to what] the king, my lord, [wrote me]: "[Gi]ve Ki[ṣir-Aššur] the barley of [... wh]ich is at [your] disposal!" — (8) there are 7,000 (homers) of ba[rley, (measured) by a s]eah of 6 litres, at [my disposal]. (10) [Man]nu-ki-Arbail, the [...] official, [and] the [...] scribes [who ca]me here hit the [......] (14) [the ki]ng, [my] lord [......] (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/P313739/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ [mx x x x x] / [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ša] LUGAL be-lí [iš-pur-an-ni] / [ma]-a ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša [x x x] / ⸢ša⸣ ina pa-ni-[ka] / [ma]-⸢a⸣ a-na mki-⸢ṣir⸣—[aš-šur] / [di]-ni 07 lim ŠE.⸢PAD⸣-[MEŠ] / [ina] ⸢GIŠ⸣.BÁN ša 06 qa ina [pa-ni-ia] / [mman]-nu—ki—arba-ìl ⸢LÚv?⸣.[x x] / [ù] LÚv.A.BA-MEŠ [x x ša] / [i]-⸢li⸣-ku-ni-ni si-[x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ it-taḫ-⸢ṣu⸣ [x x x] / [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN [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 P313739.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313739). 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/P313739/.
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