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  • SAA 15 252

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

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SAA 15, 252

SAA 15 252. Fragment Referring to a Babylonian (CT 53 482)[via saao/saa15]

Obverse
obeginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x x x x x x] x+[x x x]

o 2'2'

[x x x x x x x] e-gír- [x]

(2) [......] the letter [...]

o 3'3'

[x x x x x a-sap]-ra-áš-šu x+[x x]

(3) [...... I wr]ote him [...]

o 4'4'

[x x x x gab-ri] e-gír-te la ta-[áš-pur]

(4) ["Why have] you not [sent a reply to] (my) letter?

o 5'5'

[x x x x x x x]-ti me-me-ni [x]

(5) [......] anything [...]

o 6'6'

[x x x x x x] ki-i a-na-ku

(6) [......] As I

o 7'7'

[x x x x x x x] nu-uk ina UGU-ḫi-[x]

(7) [......] I said: "[...] to

o 8'8'

[x x x x x x x] msi-ira-me v.[x]

(8) [......] Se'-rame the [...]

o 9'9'

[x x x x x]-sap-ra-áš-šu [x]

(9) [...... s]ent him [...]

o 10'10'

[x x x x x x x]+x-si DUMU.DINGIR.[KI]

(10) [......] a Babylonian

o 11'11'

[x x x x x x x]-a šu-pur a.a-[x]

(11) [......] Send [...]!

o 12'12'

[x x x x x x x]+x-a ba-si [x x]

(12) [......] so th[at ...]

o 13'13'

[x x x x x x x x]+x il-la-[ka]

(13) [......] he will com[e]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Reverse
rdestroyed


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/P313895/.