SAA 05 005. Bringing Soldiers into Eziat (CT 53 478)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313891

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) I entered [... through] the pa[ss of ...r]uni, [mo]unting [...] on mu[les]. (4) I made 90 soldiers enter Eziat — there is a tower there — and brought 30 soldiers out of it. The vanguard [who] made the soldiers enter [......] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x x] ⸢né⸣-e-⸢ri⸣-[bi] / [x x x]-⸢ru⸣-u-ni : e-⸢ta⸣-[rab] / [x x]-⸢di⸣ ina ŠÀ ANŠE.ku-⸢din⸣ / [ú]-⸢sar?⸣-kib 90 LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / [URU*].⸢i⸣-si-tú ina ŠÀ-bi / [ina] ŠÀ URU.e-zi-at / ú-se-ri-bi / 30 LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ TA ŠÀ-bi / [ú]-⸢se⸣-ṣi pa-ni-u-⸢ti⸣ / [x x] ⸢LÚv⸣.ERIM-MEŠ ina ŠÀ [x] / [x x x] ⸢ú⸣-še-⸢ri⸣-[bu-ni] / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x]

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313891.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313891). 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/P313891/.

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