Position in chronology
SAA 05 054. A Sanctuary for Fugitives (ABL 1176)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... The ki]ng, my lord, [should know this]. (2) [As to what the king], my [lo]rd, wrote me: "[Where] is he?" — They told me: "[After he had] been deported [..., he fl]ed [and went] to Šubria." (6) [Perha]ps the king, my lord, will say: "[Has he retu]rned [and come back] from Šubria?" [I have aske]d and investigated; [they say that since he fl]ed [and went] to Šubria, [...; he has not] yet [retur]ned and come back to the country. (12) [I sent ...]... to [...], saying: "You [......]; now, [......] is staying in your court!" (16) [He replied: "He] has not fallen…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí / [x x x x ša LUGAL be]-lí iš-pur-an-ni / [ma-a a.a-ka] ⸢šu⸣-tú iq-ṭí-bu-u-ni / [ma-a TA mar šá]-ga-lu-u-ni / [x x x x iḫ-ti]-liq a-na KUR.šub-ri-a / [it-ta-lak i—su]-⸢ri⸣ LUGAL be-lí i-qab-bi / [ma-a i]-⸢suḫ*⸣-ra TAv KUR.šub-ri-a / [it-ta-la-ka a-sa-ʾa]-⸢al⸣ ú-ta-ṣi-ṣi / [ma-a TA É iḫ]-⸢li⸣-qu-u-ni a-na KUR.šub-ri-a / [il-li-ku-u-ni] ⸢aḫ⸣—ḫur a-na KUR / [la…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334772.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334772). 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/P334772/.
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