SAA 01 014. Campaigning in Ellipi (CT 53 823)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314232

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 1

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) Do not neglect your guard; [you] must be intensely [on your guard]! Yet there is no [......], and you [need not] worry about him! Let the scholar[s] tell [the oracles] to you, whether [good or bad]; Aššur and my gods [will go before you]! A bone in [......]. (8) Perhaps the scholar [ ......] as far as the city of Marubi[štu ......]. (10) Aššur-reš-iši the royal bodyguard [has met with the dignitaries] of Bit-Barru; they dined together, and he [...] [emptied] a cup in the presence of Ki[babaše]. He relates: "[......]; when at my side [......] confusion like [......]…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[a]-⸢na⸣ EN.⸢NUN-ku-nu la ta⸣-[ši-ṭa EN.NUN-ku-nu] / lu dan-na-at la-áš-šu ma-[x x x x] / ni-kit-ta-ku-nu TAv pa-ni-šu [lu la-áš-šu] / dul-la-ku-nu ep-šá LÚv.um-ma-[ni te-re-e-ti?] / ⸢li⸣-qi-bu-nik-ku-nu šúm-ma [x x x x] / aš-šur DINGIR-MEŠ-ia ina pa-na-[tu]-⸢ku⸣-[nu il-lu-ku] / e-ṣi-in-tu ina GIŠ.[x x x x x x] / is—su-ri LÚ.um-ma-⸢nu⸣ [x x x x x] / a-du ŠÀ URU.mar-ú-bi-[si x x x x] /…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P314232.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314232). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P314232/.

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