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SAA 01 175. Arabs Attack a Column of Booty (NL 019)
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High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: Your servant Adda-hati. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) (Ammili'ti) the son of Amiri readied himself with 300 she-camels, intending to attack the booty being [tran]sferred from Damascus to Assyria. (11) [I heard of this and] sent word to Bel-i[qbi]; he came and we went together to meet the booty. He saw us, ambushed us from behind, and we had a fight. [1],500 [boot]y sheep from the city of Huzaza, [1],500 sheep [......] city of [......], [...]2 men [......] men [...... (Break) (30) We returned and went in pursuit [after] him, getting as far as Il[...]ani, but could not catch up with him; (the terrain) was too difficult, [it was not fit] either for horses or for chariots [...... (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/P224395/
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Transliteration
a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣ / ARAD-ka m10—⸢ḫa⸣-ti / ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu ⸢a-na LUGAL EN⸣-ia / ⸢DUMU⸣ m⸢a⸣-mi-ri / ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢03 me*⸣ ANŠE.a-na-qa-te / ú-za-ta-⸢ki⸣ ma-a ina UGU / ⸢LÚv⸣.ḫu-ub-⸢te ša TAv⸣ / ⸢URU⸣.[di]-maš-qa ⸢a-na⸣ KUR—aš-šur / [ú-še]-⸢ta-qu⸣-ú-ni / [ma-a ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi a-⸢ma⸣-qu-[ut] / [a-se-me ina] UGU mEN—⸢iq⸣-[bi] / [a]-⸢sap⸣-ra i-tal-⸢ka⸣ / [i]-⸢sa⸣-a-ḫi-ši ina ⸢GABA⸣ / [LÚv].⸢ḫu⸣-ub-te…
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 P224395.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P224395/..
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/P224395/.
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