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SAA 05 151

  • CDLI P314049
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 15291
  • Primary publication(s): CT 53 637

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

Sender Information

  • Sender: [Ata]nha-[Šamaš]
  • Location: Eastern Kurdistan
  • Recipient: the king
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SAA 05 151. (no title) (CT 53 637)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a-na LUGAL EN-ia]

(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ata]nha-[Šamaš. Good health t]o the king, [my] lord!

o 22

[ARAD-ka ma]-⸢tan⸣-ḫa—d[UTU]

o 33

[lu šul-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-[ia]

o 44

[ina UGU x x x]+⸢x⸣-na-a.⸢a⸣

(4) [As to the ...]naean(s) [about whom they wrote] me [from the Palace]: "In Arbela [...] the palace

o 55

[ša TA É.GAL ina] UGU-ḫi-ia

o 66

[iš-pur-u-ni-ni] ma-a ina URU.arba-ìl

o 77

[x x x x] ⸢É⸣.GAL

o 88

[x x x x] ⸢TÙR⸣ É.GAL

(8) [... the cou]rtyard of the palace

o 99

[x x x x x] i-ṣab-ta-ni

(9) [...] seized me

o 1010

[x x x x x x] šap ku-⸢ṣi?⸣

o 1111

[x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Reverse
rr destroyed

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P314049/.