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SAA 05 053. A Murderer Flees to Šubria (ABL 0251)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) A commander-of-fifty of mine, of the Gurrean (troops) from Meturna, killed the mayor of Meturna. From the moment the expedition came, he did not show up to do work with his fellows but, afraid of his deed, took with him 15 Gurreans and went away to Urarṭu. (10) (When) they came and reported it to me, I sent Il-dalâ to Šubria, saying: "Go and bring down your servants." He went, but did he bring down his servants? (13) I sent my messenger back to Il-dalâ, telling him: "This commander-of-fifty and his…
Source: 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/P334186/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—BÀD—IGI-ia / lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / LÚ.GAL—50-ia šú-u ša LÚ.gur-ra-a.a URU.mu-dur-na-a.a / a-na LÚ.ḫa-za-ni ša URU.mu-dur-na i-du-ka / TAv mar KASKAL il-li-kan-a-ni la il-li-ka / dul₆-lu TAv ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú la e-pu-uš / TAv pa-an ip-ta-làḫ 15 LÚ.gur-ra-a.a / ina qa-a-ti-šú i-ṣab-bat a-na KUR.URI-a i-la-ka / it-tal-ku-u-ni iq-ṭí-bu-u-ni ana-ku…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334186.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334186). 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/P334186/.
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