Position in chronology
SAA 15 132. The King is Coming to Der (CT 53 917)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To] the kin[g, my lord: your servant] Nabû-[duru-uṣur. Good health] to [the king, my lord]! The city of D[er and the fo]rt [are well]. (6) The bod[yguard NN ...] (7) [... in(to) my p]resence [......] (8) [...] N[N ......] (Break) (r 2) Let the king [my lord] send [to] us [for ...] days [NN and ...]zû, the eunuchs [of ...], and let them [......] to the patient. (r 6) [...] should go [to De]r [...]. (r 7) [Alternatively], the king, my l[ord], should come with [......]; he should sp[e]ak [with the king], my lord. (r 10) [... the cit]y of Der with the ki[ng] (r 11) [...] 5 Babylonians (r.e. 12) [...] are going up (r.e. 13) [...] a Babylonian (r.e. 14) [...] the royal seal (r.e. 15) [...]
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/P314326/
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ía] / [ARAD-ka] md⸢PA⸣—[BÀD—PAB] / [lu DI-mu] a-na [LUGAL be-lí-ía] / [DI-mu a-na] URU.⸢de⸣-[ri DI-mu] / [a-na URU.ḪAL].ṢU [x x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢LÚv.qur⸣-[bu-te x x x] / [x x ina] ⸢pa⸣-ni-[ia x x x x] / [x x x x] m⸢d⸣[x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x] ku [x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x ša⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣ [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 P314326.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314326). 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/P314326/.
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