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SAA 01 028

  • X010028
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 07311
  • Primary publication(s): CT 53 312

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
  • Dated: no
  • Proposed Date: (717-706)

Sender Information

  • Sender: the ‘farmer’
  • Location: Royal Court
  • Recipient: Adad-šumu-uṣur, Marduk-šakin-šumi
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SAA 01 028. Donating Land (CT 53 312)

Obverse
This letter is edited as SAA 10, 216.


Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/X010028/.