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SAA 05 281. Trees for the Royal Orchards (CT 53 036)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant Sin-[ahhe-riba]. Good health to the k[ing, my lord]! (4) [Assyria] is well, the tem[ples] are well, [all the king's] fo[rts] are well. The king, [my] lo[rd], can be [glad indeed]. (8) Two big ... trees [......] (9) on the 5th day of [......] (10) to the city Šur[u ......] (11) On the 7th of [......] (12) Tu'ayu [......] (13) came [to me ......] (14) among the medlar(s) [......] (15) of the orchard [......] (Break) (r 1) [...] tree [......] (r 2) cypres[ses ......] (r 3) all [......] (r 4) there [......] (r 5) grape[s ......] (r 6) recei[ved ......] (r 7) I gave orders [......] (r 8) the rites of Nisan (I) [......]
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/P313451/
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Transliteration
a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] / ARAD-ka m30—[PAB—MEŠ—SU] / lu šul-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / šul-mu a-na [KUR—aš-šur.KI] / šul-mu a-na ⸢É⸣.[KUR-MEŠ-te] / šul-mu a-na URU.⸢bi⸣-[rat ša LUGAL gab-bu] / ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia a—dan-niš lu DÙG.GA] / 02 GIŠ.UB-MEŠ KALAG-[MEŠ x x x x x x] / UD 05-KAM ša ⸢ITI⸣.[x x x x x x x] / a-na URU.šu-u-⸢ri?⸣ [x x x x x] / UD 07-KAM ša ⸢ITI⸣.[x x x x x x] / mtu-ú-a.a…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313451.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313451). 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/P313451/.
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