Position in chronology
SAA 15 091. Dressing Medes in Purple; Dalta is Dead (ABL 1454)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (2) [I said]: "Speak [kindly with] them, furnish [them with ...], and [give b]ack [all] the h[orses that y]ou took!" (5) [They did not ag]ree but said: "We will not give them [.... Wh]en the horses and mul[es ..., and he has co]me, th[en we shall pa]ss them over." [And they said: "]Bring the men who [we]nt to Nabû-belu-k[a''in], and we [will ...]!" (10) [...] not a month [......] (11) [...] ... [......] (12) [...] ... the horse[s ...] (13) [...] anybody from [......] (14) [Con]cerning the city-lords [about whom the king, my lo]rd, wro[te to me]: "Spea[k] kindly wit[h…
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/P334917/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x]-šú-nu*-⸢ma*⸣ du-⸢bu*⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x] šu*-uk-na mu-ku ⸢ANŠE⸣.[KUR.RA-MEŠ] / [am—mar ša] ⸢ta*⸣-ši-ia-a-ni sa-ḫi-[ra di-na] / [la i-ma]-gu-ru ma-a la ni-da-an [x x x] / [ma-a ki]-i ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ù ⸢ku?-din?⸣ [x x] / [il]-⸢li⸣-kan-ni ma-a i—da-⸢ti? x x⸣-ta-qa [o] / [ma-a LÚv].ERIM-MEŠ ša a-na mdPA—EN—⸢GIN⸣-[in] / [il-li]-⸢ku*⸣-u-ni* bi*-⸢la*⸣ [x] ⸢ni*…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334917.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334917). 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/P334917/.
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