Position in chronology
SAA 15 248. Too Little Sissoo Wood in Babylon (ABL 1066)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (r 2) I [cannot] do [the work. There is] very [little] sissoo wood in Babylon for use in the work, (and) what they bring me from the city Birati [...] is all moist. [The king, my lord], knows that this work requires [a great deal] of sissoo wood. Eṭiru and Bel-ibni [......]. Since nobody [...s] the matter to [them], it does not exist in their hearts. (r 10) Now, [let them fetch] sissoo wood from Ki[ssik] or from wherever it is to be found [...] (r 13) [...] let them make [......] (r 14) [...] the king, [my] lo[rd, ...] (Break) (e. 1) [...] to us, [...] there.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x] ⸢x-ni?⸣ i-ma-qu-tu-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x] / [la?] ep-pa-áš GIŠ.MES.MÁ.GAN.NA [x x x] / ⸢a⸣-na DIB KIN ina KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI [e-ṣe?] / a—dan-niš ša TAv URU.bi-ra-ti [x x x] / ub-ba-lu-ni-ni gab-bu raṭ-⸢bu⸣ [LUGAL be-lí] / ú-da ki-i GIŠ.MES.MÁ.GAN.[NA ma-aʾ-da] / ina ŠÀ dul-lu an-ni-ú il-⸢la⸣-[ku-ni] / me-ṭè-ru mEN—ib-ni [x x x] / ki-i me-me-ni a-bu-tú ina UGU-ḫi-[šú-nu la x x] / ina UGU ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334711.
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/P334711/..
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/P334711/.
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