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SAA 15 035. Letter to Nabu-iqiša; King’s Magnates in Ellipi (ABL 0169)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant Na]bû-belu-ka''in. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! (4) [The letter which] the king, my lord, [se]nt to me, saying: "Dispatch a copy of it [to] Nabû-iqiša, and let him copy it and [disp]atch it [t]o the royal delegate of Araši" — the letter of his [which] he dispatched [has disappeared] from the hands of his messenger, and no[bo]dy knows [...]. (12) Two [...]s who came ... [have to]ld me: "The king, my lord, [...] the cohort commanders [who we]nt (there); they have been ki[l]led. [...] has collected them, they are [......]" (Break) (r 1) [The king's magnates who we]nt [......] have entered [E]llipi.
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/P334115/
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ía / [ARAD-ka md]⸢AG⸣—EN—GIN-in / [lu DI-mu a]-na LUGAL EN-ía / [e-gír-tú ša] LUGAL be-lí / [ú-še-bi]-⸢la*⸣-an-ni ma-a gab-ra-a-šá / [a-na] mdAG—BA-šá še-bi-il / ⸢ma⸣-a šu-u ip—pi-it-ti liš-ṭur / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ LÚv.qe-e-pi ša [KUR].a*-ra-ši / [lu-še]-bi-il e-⸢gír-tu*⸣-šu / [ša] ú-še-bi-lu-u-ni ⸢TA*⸣ ŠU*.2* / [LÚv].A—KIN-e-šú ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] / [me]-⸢me*-ni*⸣ la ú*-da* ⸢02 LÚv*⸣.[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 P334115.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334115). 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/P334115/.
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