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SAA 15 062. Retrieving Runaway Traitors With Lutu (CT 53 055)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the ki[ng, my lord]: your servant Aš[šur-belu-uṣur]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! (4) The servants of the ki[ng, my lord, who ...], have escaped, and are staying [with ...] of Lutû [in ...]. I have written to L[utû], telling him to [deliver] the tr[aitors], and he (responded): "Come; let you and me g[o] and bring them out (together)." I fear the king; what is it that the king commands? (12) Concerning the sto[red] barley of the house of the master of teams [about which the king, my lord, w]rote to me, saying: "You have squandered it" — [as soon as the ...] has come up, [...] in…
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/P313470/
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Transliteration
a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia] / ARAD-ka maš-[šur—EN—PAB] / lu DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] / LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia ša x x x] / iḫ-ta-al-⸢qu⸣ [TA? x x x x x] / ša mlu-tu-ú [ina x x x x] / kam-mu-su ⸢a-na mlu⸣-[tu-ú-ma] / a-sap-ra mu-uk LÚv.par-[ri-ṣu-te di-ni] / ma-a al-ka at-ta ana-ku ni-li-[ki] / nu-še-ṣi-a TA pa-an LUGAL pa-làḫ-⸢ku⸣ / mi-nu ša LUGAL EN-li i-qa-bu-u-⸢ni⸣ / ina UGU ⸢ŠE.tab-ku⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313470.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313470). 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/P313470/.
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