SAA 01 036

CDLI P334520
Collection no.: BM —
Accession no.: 1881-07-27, 0041
Primary publication(s): ABL 0731

Provenance

Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Administrative Letter
Sender: Sennacherib
Location: Royal Court
Recipient: the king

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
Dated: no

Views

SAA 01 036. Floods in Central Assyria (ABL 0731) [via SAAO/SAA01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-ahhe-riba. Good health to the king, my lord! Assyria is well, the temples are well, all the [king's f]orts are well. [The king, m]y [lord, can be glad indeed.]
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^d30—PAB-MEŠ—SU
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	DI-mu a-na KUR—aš-šur
o 55	DI-mu a-na É.KUR-MEŠ
o 66	DI-mu a-na URU.bi-[ra]-ti
o 77	[ša LUGAL gab]-⸢bu⸣
o 88	[ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣
o 99	[a—dan-niš lu DÙG.GA]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
r 1'r 1'	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x]
r 2'2'	[it^?]-⸢ta⸣-lak	(r 2) ...] went [...]. Floods have advanced very considerably [in the province] of Nineveh, [in] Dur-Šarruken and in the province of Kurbail.
r 3'3'	[ina NAM] URU.ni-nu-a
r 4'4'	[ina] ⸢URU^*⸣.BÀD—^mMAN—GIN
r 5'5'	ina NAM URU.kur-ba^*-ìl
r 6'6'	ma-aʾ-da a—dan-niš
r 7'7'	mì-il-ʾa-a-ni
r 8'8'	šu-nu it-tal-ku

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/P334520/.