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SAA 01 030. The King Of Urarṭu Defeated by the Cimmerians (ABL 1079)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Break) (1) "[...... I have] appointed your [major]-domo in [my] palace." (2) [Thi]s was the report of Aššur-reṣuwa. [Šulmu]-Bel, the deputy of the Palace Herald came into my presence (with the following report): (4) "Urzana has written to me: 'The troops of the Urarṭian king have been defeated on his expedition against the Cimmerians. The governor of Waisi has been killed; we do not have detailed information yet, but as soon as we have it, we will send you a full report.' (r 3) "[Further: The] cavalrymen [under the command of Šar]ru-lu-dari have disappeared and are on the run in Urarṭu. [The sc]outs of the household of the Palace Herald [operating in the t]erritory of Hubuškia [......] have caught [...... the city of] Birate [......" (Rest destroyed)
Source: 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/P334721/
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Transliteration
[ma-a LÚv.GAL?]—⸢É-ka⸣ ina É*-⸢ia? ap?⸣-ti*-qid* / [an-ni]-ú ṭè-e-mu ša maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / [mDI-mu]—EN LÚv.02-ú ša LÚv.600—É.GAL / [ina pa]-⸢ni⸣-ia it-tal-ka ma-a mur-za-an-na / [is]-sa-ap-ra ma-a LUGAL* KUR.URI-a.a / [ina KUR].⸢PAB*⸣-ir* bé-et il-lik-ú-ni / [ma]-a LÚv.e-mu-qe-e-šú de-e-ka / ⸢ma⸣-a LÚv.EN.NAM ša URU.ú-a-si / [o] de-e-ke ma-a qu-di-i-ni / [o*] ba*-ti*-iq-tú la-a ni-ḫar-ra-ṣa /…
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 P334721.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334721). 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/P334721/.
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