Position in chronology
SAA 05 280. Oxen and Wagons (CT 53 442)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (6) [...] to [......] (7) [t]o the te[ams ......] (8) to the messen[ger ...] (9) I bro[ught ......] (Break) (12) I g[ave him] these orders: "As soon as you have brought [...] the oxen and the wa[gons, give them] to [NN]; later on, [......]." (r 4) What else? Let these [...]s go out too, don't let [...] grow [...] (Break) (r 11) [... ap]proached [...] (Break) (e. 1) [wh]ich I answered you [...]
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/P313855/
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Transliteration
[x x x] ⸢a⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x] a-na [x x x x x] / [a]-na ANŠE.ú-[rat x x x x] / a-na LÚv.A—⸢KIN⸣ [x x x x x] / at-ta-⸢ṣa⸣ [x x x x x x] / šu-[x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x] / ⸢msa⸣-[x]+⸢x-x⸣-[x x x x] / ṭè-e-mu a-⸢sa⸣-[kan-šu] / nu-uk ki-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / GUD-MEŠ TAv…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313855.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313855). 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/P313855/.
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