SAA 05 044. Troops in Hubuškia (CT 53 054)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313469

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(1) The very [best of health] t[o the king, my lord! Your servant Hu]-Tešub. (3) A di[strict of Urarṭu] called [...] (Break) (7) [...... gove]rnors (Break) (r 1) [The cava]lry of the ki[ng of ...] (r 2) [have ...ed ag]ainst the palace herald. (r 3) On account of the troops which are in Hubuškia, outside (the border), I am sending this letter of mine to ....

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

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Transliteration

a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ía a—dan-niš] ⸢a⸣—dan-niš / lu-[u DI-mu ARAD-ka mḫu]—te-šub / na*-[gi-u x x x x x x]+⸢x i⸣-qab-bu-niš-šú / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢bi⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]-šu / [x x x x x x x LÚv].⸢NAM⸣-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x]-a / [LÚv.šá]—⸢pet*⸣-ḫal ⸢LUGAL?⸣ [x x x x x] / [ina*] UGU LÚv.NIGIR—É.GAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ina UGU e-mu-qi ša ina KUR.ḫu-ub-uš-ki-a / ina qa-an-ni šu-nu-ni ina UGU-ḫi e-gir-ti / an-ni-tú a-na ⸢ku?⸣-in*-⸢ti*⸣ a-sa-par

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313469.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313469). 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/P313469/.

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