SAA 15 139. (no title) (CT 53 436)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313849

Translation · reference

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] aroun[d ...] (2) [...] of the chi[ef ...] (3) [...] in(to) the king's presence [...] (4) [Il-ya]da' who [......] (5) [in] the days of [NN] (6) [Nabû]-belu-ka''in in [......] (7) [...] No[w ...] (8) [x] hundred men [...] (9) [...] muc[h ...] (Rest destroyed)

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/P313849/

Why it matters

Transliteration

[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina bat-bat-[ti x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ša LÚv.⸢GAL⸣—[x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ina pa-an LUGAL [x x x x] / [mDINGIR—ia]-da-aʾ ša [x x x x x] / [ina ŠÀ] UD-MEŠ ša m[x x x x x] / [mdPA]—EN—GIN ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ an-nu-[rig x x x x] / [x] me LÚv.ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-aʾ-[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 P313849.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313849). 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/P313849/.

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