Position in chronology
SAA 01 092. Speaking with the Ruqahu Tribe (ABL 1086)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord!] (6) [As to] the Ruqaheans [concerning whom the king] my lord wrote to me: "You and Zeru-ibni, speak with them!" (10) After the king my lord (had left) they stayed seven days in the Inner City, dining with me; I spoke with them, and they told me this: (15) "Our brothers and families ......" (Break) (r 4) I have sent word, and (as soon as) they come, I and Zeru- ibni will speak with them; when we come to the [revi]ew, [the king my lord can speak] with us. (r 11) It is raining con[tinually, and there is very much [water]. The king, my lord, [can be glad].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mDÙG.GA—ṣil—É.ŠÁR.RA] / [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [aš-šur dNIN.LÍL a-na LUGAL] / [EN-ia lik-ru-bu] / [ina UGU] ⸢LÚv?.ru?⸣-qa?-ḫa*-[a.a] / [ša LUGAL] EN iš-pur-an-ni / ma-a at-ta mNUMUN—DÙ / i-si-šú-nu du-ub-ba / a—da-at LUGAL EN-ia / 07 UD-MEŠ ina URU.ŠÀ—URU / kam-mu-su NINDA-MEŠ ina pa-ni-ia / e-ku-lu i-si-šú-nu / a-du-bu-ub iq-ṭí-bu-ni / ma-a ŠEŠ-MEŠ-ni /…
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 P334728.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334728). 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/P334728/.
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