Position in chronology
SAA 01 244. An Ambush on the Hill of Kawkab (ABL 1263)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) [To the Vizier, my lord: your servant Taklak-ana-Bel. Good he]alth to [my lord!] (4) [Bahian]u being [the key witness to the cr]imes co]mmitted by Be[l-lu-balaṭ], my lord wro[te to me]: "Let Bahianu come here." He (= Bel-lu-balaṭ) heard (of this) and ambushed 50 men on Mt. Kukab before his arrival. They killed Bahianu along with his attendants and took three minas of gold, two talents of silver, four mules and ten donkeys. (15) [...]si heard (of this), went in pursuit [after them, killed ... men] of them, [and retrieved] the mules and the donkeys. [He captured ...] men from among them and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LÚ.SUKKAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka] m[tak-lak—a-na—EN] / [lu DI]-mu a-[na EN-ia] / [mba-ḫi-a]-⸢nu⸣ šu-ú [mu-kin-nu] / [ḫi-ṭa]-a-te ša m⸢EN*⸣—[lu—TI.LA] / [e]-pa-šu-u-ni be-lí is-⸢sap⸣-[ra] / ma-a mba-ḫi-a-nu lil-li-ka / šu-ú is-se-me 50 ERIM-MEŠ / a-na šub-ti pa-na-tu-uš-šú / i-na KUR.ku-ki-bi us-se-⸢šib*⸣ / a-na mba-ḫi-a-ni a-di LÚ.TUR-[MEŠ]-⸢šú*⸣ / id-du-ku 03 MA.NA KUG.GI / 02 GÚ.UN KUG.UD 04…
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 P334820.
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/P334820/..
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/P334820/.
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