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SAA 17 065

  • CDLI P240213
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: Rm 2, 457
  • Primary publication(s): CT 54 443

Details

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

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
  • Dated: no
  • Proposed Date: (710-709)

Sender Information

  • Sender: [Ana-Nabu-taklak]
  • Location: Borsippa
  • Recipient: [the vizier]
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SAA 17 065. Partial Duplicate of No. 64 (CT 54 443)[via saao/saa17]

Obverse
obeginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[a]-na [šul-mu be--ía]

o 2'2'

al-tap-ra

o 3'3'

01-en NA₄.ki-šá-du

o 4'4'

i-na ŠU.2-šú

(4) I have [now] sent [... to greet my lord]. In his hands, I am sending a neck seal for my lord.

o 5'5'

a-na be--ia

o 6'6'

ul-te-bi-la

o 7'7'

ṭè-e-mu

(7) May my lord write me (about) his news, his health and his happiness.

Bottom
b.e. 8'b.e. 8'

šá be--ia

Reverse
r 1r 1

šu-lum-šú

r 22

u ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi-šú

r 33

be- liš-pu-ra


Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. 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/P240213/.