Position in chronology
SAA 05 086. The Army of Urarṭu on the March (ABL 0492)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant] Aššur-reṣuwa. [Good hea]lth to the king, my lord! (4) [The ki]ng of Urarṭu has left Ṭurušpâ [on the fir]st of Nisan (I) and gone to Elizzada. Kaqqadanu, his commander-in-chief, has gone to Waisi. The whole Urarṭian army is marching [t]o Elizzada, following the king. (13) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "[H]ow [are they positioned]?" — (r 3) I have [n]ot heard [any report ... y]et.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / [ARAD-ka] maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / [ina] ⸢SAG⸣.DU ITI ša ITI.BARAG / ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR.URI-a.a TAv URU.ṭu-ur-uš-pa-[a] / it-tu-ṣi a-na URU.el-iz-za-da / ⸢i⸣-tal-lak mSAG.DU-a-nu / LÚ.tur-ta-nu-šu ina ŠÀ / URU.ú-e-si i-tal-lak / ⸢LÚ⸣.e-muq-qi ša KUR.URI / gab-bu de-et LUGAL / [a]-na URU.el-iz-za-du / [i]-ra-di-a i—su-ri / LUGAL be-lí i-qab-bi / [ma-a a]-ke-e / [šak-na ú]-⸢di⸣-na / [ṭè-e-mu] ⸢la⸣ áš-me / [x x x]-⸢ni⸣
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334339.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334339). 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/P334339/.
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