Position in chronology
SAA 05 294. Request for Beams, Gold and Steel (ABL 0566)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (1) "Cons[ult] the tablet!" The br[ick masons who] star[ted] to work were gossiping the following day, saying: "This work is most acceptable to Bel! The king is going to live long!" (6) They were merry indeed, so I asked: "What is it? Tell me!" but they wouldn't tell me. (9) (I need) six musukkannu trees, each six cubits (3 m) long and one cubit (50 cm) in circumference; (10) one haluppu fir tree, five cubits long, one cubit in circumference; (12) ten musukkannu trees, each of which are two qû measures thick; they may be either five or six cubits long; (14) one good box…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢ṭup⸣-pu pi-[qid?] LÚv.⸢ú⸣-[ra-si?] / [ša] ⸢Á⸣-šú-nu ina UGU dul-li iš-⸢kun⸣-[u-ni] / [a]-⸢na⸣ 02-i UD-me i-da-ab-bu-bu / [ma]-a dul-lu an-ni-u ina IGI d.EN / ⸢ma⸣-ḫi-ir a—dan-niš ma-a UD-MEŠ ša LUGAL / ⸢i⸣-ri-ku ḫa-di-u a—dan-niš / nu-uk qí-ba-a-ni mi-nu šu-u / la im-ma-gu-ru la i-qab-bu-u-ni / 06 GIŠ.MES.MÁ.GAN.NA 06-a.a 01 KÙŠ / GÍD.DA 01 KÙŠ na-ku-pu 01 GIŠ.ḪA.LU.ÚB / 05 ina 01 KÙŠ GÍD.DA 01…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334388.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334388/..
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/P334388/.
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