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SAA 15 036. Letter of Naṣibi to Nabu-iqiša (ABL 0170)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The report [on the Elam]ite which [I s]ent t[o the king] (6) [......]s (7) [......] (8) [...... Nabû]-iqiša (Break) (r 1) [I shall s]end [......] of the king of Elam. (r 3) [Now th]en I am sending to the king, my lord, the letter of [Na]ṣibi that came to [Nabû-iqiša]. (r 7) I went as far as Meturna with Il-yada', passed those people through, returned, and met Balaṭî on the 9th day in Dur-Bel-ila'i. Now then I am going where the king, my lord, sent me to. I have sent (word), and my king's men are on the alert. (r 15) Let them quickly send me a copy of this letter of Naṣibi so I can send it to Nabû-iqiša.
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/P334116/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka mdAG—EN—GIN / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ṭè-e-mu [ša KUR.NIM.MA].⸢KI⸣-a.a / ša a-[na LUGAL áš]-pur-an-ni / [x x x x x x x]-ti / [x x x x x x x]-nu / [x x x x x mdAG]—BA-šá / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x]-⸢ka*⸣ / [x x x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣ / [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x]-nu / [x x x x x x x]-⸢ka⸣ / [x x x x x x x x] / [x 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 P334116.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334116). 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/P334116/.
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