SAA 15

Ch. 1 (Letters from Arrapha) [23]

Ch. 2 (Letters from Lubda and the Hamrin Area) [29]

Ch. 3 (Letters from Parsua, Bit-Hamban and Šingibutu) [30]

Ch. 4 (Letters from Kar-Šarrukin) [28]

Ch. 5 (Letters from Der and Yadburu) [44]

Ch. 6 (Letters from Northern Babylonia) [62]

Ch. 7 (Letters from Central and Southern Babylonia) [57]

Ch. 8 (Additions to SAA 1 and SAA 5) [14]

Ch. 9 (Varia and Unassigned) [103]

Names

SAA 15 290

Numbers

CDLI P313723
BM —
K 06903A
CT 53 308
SAA 15, 290

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Neo-Assyrian
Written ca. Sargon2.000.00.00
Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
Administrative Letter

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SAA 15, 290

SAA 15 290. On a Foundation Stone (CT 53 308)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] LUGAL [be-lí-ia]	(1) [To] the king, [my lord]: yo[ur servant] Nadin[...].
o 22	[ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ ^mna-⸢din^?⸣-[x x]	(1) [To] the king, [my lord]: yo[ur servant] Nadin[...].
o 33	[ina] ⸢UGU⸣ pu-u-li [o]	(3) As to the foundation stone [about which I wrote] to the king, my lord, [in] one side of it [...]
o 44	[ša] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ [(x x x)]
o 55	[ina] bat-ti-šu 01-et ⸢x⸣+[x x]
o 66	[x x]+⸢x⸣-su it-⸢ta⸣-[x x]
o 77	[x x] ⸢ak^?⸣ šá-ni-[x x x]
o 88	[x x] ú-ru-⸢ku⸣ [x x x]
o 99	[pu-u]-⸢lu⸣ ur-ki-⸢ú⸣ [x x x]
o 1010	[x x] ⸢i⸣-šá-an-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
o 1111	[x x x]-áš-ru ṣa [x x x]
o 1212	[x x x] ⸢ina UGU⸣ [x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x]
r 2'2'	[x x x]-ta an-nu-[rig^?]	(r 2) [...] Now th[en]
r 3'3'	[x x] ⸢GÍR^?⸣-MEŠ AN.BAR ⸢x⸣+[x x]	(r 3) [...] iron [sw]ords [...]
r 4'4'	[x x] na ⸢KÁ⸣ i—su-ri [o]	(r 4) [...] ... Perhaps
r 5'5'	[LUGAL] be-lí i-qab-⸢bi⸣	(r 5) [the king], my lord, will say:
r 6'6'	⸢ma⸣-a a-ta-a ⸢x⸣ [x x x x]	(r 6) "Why did you bring out [...]?"
		(Break)
r 7'7'	tu-še-⸢ṣi⸣ [x x x x x]
r 8'8'	⸢ta⸣ [x x x x x x x x]
r 9'9'	ṣa [x x x x x x x x]
r 10'10'	e-⸢pu-uš⸣ [x x x x x]	(r 10) Do [......]
r 11'11'	a-na-⸢ṣar⸣ [x x x x x x]	(r 11) I guard [...]
r 12'12'	ina pa-an ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]	(r 12) before [...]
r 13'13'	ina ŠÀ UD-MEŠ ša [x x x]	(r 13) In the days of [...]
Right		(r 13) In the days of [...]
r.e. 14r.e. 14	[ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ 01 GÍN 1/2 [x x x x]	(r 14) [a]t 1.5 shekels [...]
r.e. 1515	[x]+⸢x⸣ ka na ir [x x x x]	(r 15) [......]
r.e. 1616	[lu] la ú-⸢ba⸣-[x x x]	(r 16) [let] him not [...]
Edge		(r 16) [let] him not [...]
e. 1e. 1	[x x x x x]-na KUR-MEŠ [x x x]	(e. 1) [......] lands [...]

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/P313723/.