Position in chronology
SAA 05 087. The Urarṭian Troops Concentrate in Waisi (ABL 0444)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good] health to the king, [my] lo[rd]! (4) [Five] governors of the Urarṭ[ian] have ent[ered] Waisi: Setinu, the governor o[ppo]site us; Kaqqadanu, the one opposite the Ukkeans; Sakuatâ of Qaniun; Siplia of Alzi; Ṭuki of Armiraliu: these are their names. (13) They have entered Waisi with three unit commanders. Now, after their (arrival), they have raised the levies of the country, and are keeping the army in readiness. (19) The king has moved out of Ṭuruš[p]â and gone to Wazaun. (r 3) As to what the king, my lord, wrote me: "Send out scouts!" — I have sent them twice: the first have come back and told me these things; the others have not yet come out.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a] / [lu] ⸢DI-mu⸣ a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] / [05] LÚv.EN.NAM-MEŠ ša KUR.URI-[a.a] / ina ŠÀ URU.ú-e-si e-⸢tar⸣-[bu] / mse-ti-nu LÚv.EN.NAM ša ⸢pu*-tu*-ni⸣ / mkaq-qa-da-nu ša pu-tu [o] / KUR.ú-ka-a.a msa-ku-a-ta-a / ša KUR.qa-ni-un msi-ip-li-a / ša KUR.al-zi mṭu-ki* / ša KUR.ár-mir-a-li-u / an-nu-te MU-MEŠ-šú-nu / TAv ⸢03*⸣ LÚv.EN—pir-ri / ina ŠÀ-bi…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334308.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334308). 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/P334308/.
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