Position in chronology
SAA 15 176. Digging a Moat (CT 53 145)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... of] the moat [...] (2) [... o]f the moat against the tower (3) [...] the Isuqa[ean(s)] (4) [...] of the moat against the mountain [...] (5) [... where] three men, where four men, where five [men ...] (6) Perhaps the king, my lord, will s[ay]: "Why [......] the ground like this?" (8) [...] he will reach down (by digging) [...]. (9) [The king], my [lord] knows that [it is] in the hands of the Chaldean. (10) We shall finish [... on the xt]h of Elul (VI) [...] (11) [......] as far as the inside of the mountain [...] (12) [......] came [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x] ⸢ḫi⸣-ri-ṣi [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢ša⸣ ḫi-ri-ṣi ša ina UGU i-si-te-[ni] / [x x x] LÚ.i-su-qa-[a.a] / [x x x] ⸢ša⸣ ḫi-ri-ṣi ša ina UGU KUR-e ni-[x] / [x bé-et] 03 ⸢LÚ⸣ bé-et 04 LÚ bé-et ⸢05⸣ [LÚ] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ i—su-ri LUGAL be-lí i-⸢qab⸣-[bi] / [ma-a a]-⸢ta⸣-a ki-i an-ni-i kaq-qa-ru [x x x] / [x x x] ⸢a⸣ i-ša-pi-il il-[x x x x] / [LUGAL be]-⸢lí⸣ ú-da ina ŠU.2 LÚv.kal-⸢di⸣ [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 P313560.
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/P313560/..
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/P313560/.
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