Position in chronology
SAA 05 295. Second-Rate Logs will not Do (ABL 0467)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king], my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk] bless the king, my lord! (Break) (8) [......] are distributing [...] to the magnates (10) [If it is acceptable to] the king, my lord, [the ...] should give orders [to ......] (13) [......] they should come (14) [I will] give them [...]. (15) [The ... which they have c]ut into shape (16) [are] very [...]; (17) their [...] are [...]. (18) I have listed their [...] and sent (this information) to the king, my lord. (20) The second-rate (logs) we [have been cut]ting into shape here are quite…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mx x x] / [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL] EN-ia / [dPA dAMAR.UTU a]-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-di-ru / [x x x x x x x x]-a-ni / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ / [x x x x]-⸢ri⸣ a-na LÚv.GAL-MEŠ / [x x x x]-MEŠ ú-za-ʾi-zu-u-ni / [šúm-ma ina IGI] LUGAL EN-ia / [ma-ḫir x x x] ṭè*-e-mu / [a-na LÚv.x x-MEŠ] liš-ku-nu / [x x x x x] lil-li-ku-u-ni / [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 P334322.
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/P334322/..
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/P334322/.
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