SAA 05 035. The King of Šubria Refuses to Extradite Deserters (CT 53 160)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313575

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ša-Aššur-dubbu. The best of health to the king, my lord]! (4) [The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. The king, my lord, can be gl]ad. (7) [......] (8) [......] my messenger (9) [......] my [mes]senger (10) [......] (11) [... they s]tay [...] his [...] (12) [......] day(s) (13) [......] they come (14) [...... has been se]rving [...]. (15) Now that my messenger wanted to make him leave, they protected him with axes and [...]. (17) I a[sk]ed the [Šubria]n: "Why do you seize deserters [f]rom the Urarṭian (king) fleeing to Assyria, and…

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

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Transliteration

[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mša—aš-šur—du-bu] / [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš] / [DI-mu a-na URU.bi-ra-a-ti] / [a-na KUR ša LUGAL EN-ia] / [ŠÀ ša LUGAL EN-ia lu DÙG].GA / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ru / [x x x x x x x LÚv].A—šip-ri-ia / [x x x x x x LÚv.A]—šip-ri-ia / [x x x x x x x x x]-me / [x x] ⸢iz⸣-za-zu [x x x x x]-e-šu / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UD-me / ⸢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 P313575.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313575). 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/P313575/.

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