SAA 05 010. (no title) (CT 53 708)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314118

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (2) he[re ......] (3) the troop[s ......] (4) the for[t ......] (5) to A[ssyria ......] (6) Now [......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / an-na-[x x x x x x] / LÚv.ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] / URU.ḪAL.[ṢU x x x x x] / a-na KUR—⸢aš⸣-[šur x x x x x] / ú-ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x] / ú-[x 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 P314118.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314118). 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/P314118/.

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