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SAA 05 282 (P313801)

Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSAA 05 282
IDP313801
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreAdministrative Letter
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

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Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33[To the king, my lord]: your [serv]ant [Ṭab-šar-Aššur]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]!
Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55As to what the king, my lord, wr[ote me]: "Why are the names of the gov[ernors] not fixed on [the reliefs]?" —
Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111[the king, my lord], knows that our [previous] campaign which we directed to Mannea [... is depicted] o[n the walls of] the Ol[d] Palace. We [......]
Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2'[the na]mes of the kings and the [...] officials
Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3'[di]adems in fr[ont of ...]
Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6'their [na]mes [......]

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