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SAA 15 037. Shipping Tribute Oxen and Sheep from Der (CT 53 092)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) Perhaps the king, [my] lord, [will say]: "To [whom did] the oxen and sheep [belong?]" (5) They are of tribute. [He wrote to me] repeatedly: "Let them come and pass them through!" I wrote to him that they should graze here, but he (insisted): "While my lord is [in] Meturna, let them come [and p]ass them through!" (10) (So) I sent [x] soldiers [fr]om here, saying: "Let them pass them through." They had covered one league of ground [from] Der, (when) he sent (word) and had them returned, saying: "The enemy is attacking them." The soldiers [we]nt (back) and [sta]yed five…
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/P313507/
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Transliteration
[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [x x x] lu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / i—su-ri LUGAL be-⸢lí⸣ [i-qab-bi] / ma-a GUD-MEŠ UDU-MEŠ ša [man-ni šú-nu] / ša ma-da-ti šú-nu 02-šú ⸢03⸣-[šú i-sap-ra] / ma-a lil-li-ku-u-ni lu-u-še-⸢ti⸣-[qu] / a-na-ku a-sap-ra-šú nu-uk ḫa-na-⸢ka⸣ / le-ku-lu ú-la ma-a a-du be-lí / [ina] ⸢URU⸣.A-MEŠ—dur-na-ni lil-li-ku-ni / [lu-u]-⸢še⸣-ti-qu a-na-ku LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / [x] ⸢TA⸣ an-na-ka…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313507.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313507). 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/P313507/.
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