Position in chronology
SAA 01 240. Mountaineers Defy the Governor (ABL 0610)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (1) ......] men [.... in the] olden times [...] I sent [...] to them. Now, I sent their prefect to them (with this message): "Come! Let me review you, take you down into the mother (town) and give you equipment." They did not obey at all; they didn't come but assaulted their prefect. (10) There is a town called Lapsija at the foot of the mountain; I went there and sent the major-domo to them (with this message): "Come, I want to speak with you." They got up and fled, he did not find anybody there. (16) I said in the king my lord's presence in Nineveh: "They will not…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x] ⸢LÚv*⸣.ERIM-⸢MEŠ na*-x⸣+[x x x] / [ki-i ša ina] la-bi-ri ú-[x x x] / [ina] ⸢UGU*-ḫi*-šú*⸣-nu a-sa-⸢ap⸣-[ra] / ú-ma-a LÚv.šá-kan-šú-nu ina ⸢UGU⸣-[ḫi-šu-nu] / a-sa-par nu-uk al-ka-a-ni / la-šur-ku-nu ina ŠÀ AMA lu-še-ri-id-ku-nu / GIŠ.til-li la-ad-di-nak-ku-nu / la-áš-šú la iš-me-ú la il-li-ku-ni / a-na LÚv.šak-ni-šú-nu iḫ-ta-as-ʾu / URU.la-ap-si-a i-qab-bu-ni-šú / ina GÌR.2 KUR-ú ina…
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 P334422.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334422). 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/P334422/.
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