Position in chronology
SAA 05 295. Second-Rate Logs will not Do (ABL 0467)
Translation · reference
High confidence(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…
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/P334322/
Why it matters
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: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334322). 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/P334322/.
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