Position in chronology
SAA 17 120. Elamite Attack (ABL 1335+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) To the king, our lord: your servants Nabû-šuma-lišir and Aqar-Bel-lumur. Good health to the king, our lord! Say to the king, our lord: The king's forts and troops are well. The mood of the people is good. The king, our lord, can be glad. (8) On the 8th of Kislev (IX), on the eve of the 9th day, a messenger of Šamaš-belu-uṣur, the legate of Der, arrived on a passageway horse. (While) the people [of] Zitta were organizing help, he said: "Go up to the fortified place! The king of Elam is (marching) against you!" (14) When we said to him, "Proceed against him! Tell us, why are you organizing…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-i-ni / ⸢ARAD-MEŠ⸣-ka m⸢dAG—MU—SI⸣.SÁ u mKAL—dEN—lu-mur / ⸢lu⸣-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-i-ni / ⸢um⸣-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-i-ni-a-ma / ⸢šul⸣-mu a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ ù e-mu-qu / ⸢šá⸣ LUGAL ṭè-e-mu šá UN-MEŠ šul*-mu / ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi šá LUGAL be-lí-i-ni lu-ú ṭa-ab-šú / ⸢ITI.GAN?⸣ UD 08-KÁM mu-šú šá UD ⸢09*⸣-KÁM* LÚ.A—KIN / šá mdUTU—EN—ŠEŠ ⸢LÚ.qí⸣-pi* šá BÀD.DINGIR.KI / i-na ANŠE.BAD-ḪAL-li…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P238648.
Attribution
Image: 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/P238648/..
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P238648/.
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