Position in chronology
SAA 05 081. A Case Against the Governor (TCL 9 68)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) A tablet of Aššur-zeru-ibni to Nergal-eṭir. I am well; may my brother be well. (5) My messenger is n[ow] on his way to the chief eunuch. He has left on account of the claim of the governor of Halziatbar concerning the Ehimaneans: "You are my servants!" (14) Now that the messenger is going to the chief [eunuch, ...]; (r 1) You [...]; write to anybody! (r 3) Are you not my brother? Let my brother write (me) whatever the news (may be).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
IM maš-šur—NUMUN—DÙ / a-na mU.GUR—KAR-ir PAB-u-a / DI-mu a.a-ši / lu-u DI-mu a-na PAB-u-a / ú-ma-a an-nu-⸢ríg⸣ / LÚv.A—KIN-ia i-la-ka / ina UGU-ḫi LÚv.GAL—SAG / it-tal-ka ina UGU-ḫi / de-ni ša LÚv.EN.NAM / ša KUR.ḫal-zi—AD.BAR / ina UGU-ḫi URU.e-ḫi-man-a.a / ma-a LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ-ia / at-tu-ú-ni / ú-ma-a LÚv.A—KIN / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi LÚv.GAL—[SAG] / ⸢il-lak⸣-a / it-[x x]-si-i / ⸢at⸣-ta [x] mu u ku mi / a-na ma-ni-ma šup-ra / la-a ŠEŠ-a.a ⸢at⸣-ta-a / mi-nu šá ṭè-mu-u-ni / PAB-u-a li-iš-pur
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P337151.
Attribution
Image: Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses — from Mesopotamia (Assyrian royal centres — Aššur, Nineveh, Kalḫu, Dur-Šarrukin) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P337151). 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/P337151/.
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