Position in chronology
SAA 05 002. Attacks on Forts (ABL 0548)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) [To the k]in[g, my lo]rd: [your servant Nashir]-Bel. Good health t[o the king], my [lord]! (3) [The land] of [the ki]ng is well; the for[t]s are well. The king, my lord, can be glad. (6) As to the news of the Urarṭians, the messenger of mine [wh]om I sent [to] the governor opposite me has come back; he spoke to him as the king, my lord, wrote me, saying: "Why do you capture our forts, while we are at peace?" (r 1) He said: "What should I do? If I have trespassed on your territory or your forts, call me to account." (r 5) His troops are assembled with him; he is keeping watch in Harda. This was the news about them.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL* EN*⸣-[ía ARAD-ka mNIGIN]—EN / ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-[na LUGAL EN]-ía / DI-mu a-na [KUR] ⸢ša* LUGAL⸣ / DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL.[ṢU]-MEŠ / ŠÀ-bu šá LUGAL EN-ía lu DÙG / ina UGU ṭè-me ša KUR.URI-a.a / LÚv.A—KIN-⸢ia* ša*⸣ ina UGU* / LÚv.EN.NAM [ša] pu*-u*-tú-u-a / áš-pur-ú-⸢ni* it*⸣-tal-ka / ki-i ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / id-du-ba-áš-šú / ma a-ta-a a-ni-nu / sa-al-ma-ni at-tu-nu / at-tu-nu…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334373.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334373). source
Translation excerpted from Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334373/.
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