Position in chronology
SAA 15 010. Distributing Barley Rations (CT 53 481)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) according t[o ......] (3) in the cit[y ......] (4) a writing-board [......] (5) to the palace [......] (6) in the domestic quarters [......] (7) They should have sen[t me a sealed order] according to the wr[iting-board], and I would have gi[ven] the barley accordingly, wherever it i[s]. (r 3) The barley which is in the town Ša[bbu ...]. (r 4) The rest which is in [...] (r 5) indeed [......] (Rest destroyed)
Source: Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P313894/
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Transliteration
⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / ina pi-⸢ti⸣ [x x x x x] / ina ŠÀ ⸢URU⸣.[x x x x x] / GIŠ.le-ʾu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / a-na É.GAL [x x x x] / ina É—02-e [x x x x] / ina pi-ti ⸢le⸣-[ʾi x x] / lu-u-še-bi-⸢lu⸣-[u-ni] / ŠE.PAD-MEŠ bé-et ši-i-⸢ti⸣-[ni] / ina pi-ti lu-u ⸢ad⸣-[din] / ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša ina URU.⸢šab⸣-[bu x x] / re-eḫ-tú ša ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣-[bi x x] / i-ba-áš-ši ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313894.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313894). source
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P313894/.
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