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SAA 15 166. Building, Equipping and Manning a Fort (ABL 0883)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Il-ya[da']. 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) The magnates have built the fo[rt] of Minu'. They raised 1,000 homers of barley from the fort of the Luhut[eans] and stored it there. I have placed there 10 homers of salt, 16 [...s] of kudimmu salt, 30 jugs of oil, 18 jugs of naphtha, 30 bows, 20,000 [...] arrows, 10,000 arrow-shafts, 100 [...], two talents of [...] wool, and three talents of ......., and have appointed my o[ff]icial there accompanied by 100…
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/P334606/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / ARAD-ka mDINGIR—ia*-[da-aʾ] / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL [be-lí-ía] / DI-mu a-na ma-a-ti ù [URU.bi-ra-a-te] / ša LUGAL be-lí-ía ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL [be-lí-ía] / lu DÙG.GA-šú LÚv.GAL-MEŠ URU.⸢bir⸣-[tú] / ša URU.mi-nu-uʾ ⸢e-tap⸣-šú [o] / 01 lim ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ TA ŠÀ-bi / URU.bir-ti ⸢ša LÚv.lu⸣-ḫu-ú-⸢ta⸣-[a.a] / ⸢in⸣-ta-at-ḫu ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢ik-tar-ru⸣ / ana-ku 10 ANŠE ⸢MUN* 16? me?⸣ [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 P334606.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334606). 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/P334606/.
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