Position in chronology
SAA 15 155. Merodach-Baladan Departs from Cutha (ABL 1071)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Il-yada'. Good health] to [the king, my lord! The land] and [the forts of the king my lord are well. The king, my lord, can] be [glad]. (6) News of Merodach-Baladan: [he has departed] from Cutha on the 5th of [...] and entered [... on the xth], before the dra[fts ...]. (11) ... [......] (12) wrote to me [......] (13) ... [......] (14) Now then [NN ...], (15) [wh]om the king, my lord, [......] (Break) (r 2) "Merodac[h-Baladan ...] (r 3) "[... i]n Cut[ha ...] (r 4) "from Cut[ha ...] (r 5) "t[o] the river [......] (r 6) "[I shall k]eep watch [......] (r 7) "[in C]utha [......]." (r 8) Now then I am sending him t[o the king, my lord]. The ki[ng, my lord, should question him.]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia] / [ARAD-ka mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ lu-u DI-mu] / a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL be-lí-ia DI-mu a-na ma-a-te] / ù [URU.ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ ša LUGAL be-lí-ía] / ŠÀ-bu [ša LUGAL be-lí-ía lu DÙG.GA-šú] / ṭè-e-mu ⸢ša⸣ [mdAMAR.UTU—A—AŠ] / UD 05-KÁM ša ITI.[x x x x x] / TAv GÚ.DU₈.A.⸢KI⸣ [it-tu-ṣi UD x-KÁM?] / ina pa-an zi-⸢qa*⸣-[x x x x x] / e-tar-ba ⸢TAv⸣ [x x x x] / ra-i-bi la [x x x x x x] / iš-pur-an-ni [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 P334716.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334716/..
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/P334716/.
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