Position in chronology
SAA 05 093. A Coup d’État in Urarṭu (CT 53 365+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (1) His magnates [sur]rounded him in [..., at the ou]tskirts of Wai[si], and killed him. (6) The right-hand commander-in-chief, of the family [of Sar]duri, [......] but has [not y]et entered Ṭu[rušp]â. (r 4) [Per]haps the king, my lord, [will s]ay: "[...] (r 6) [...] the fort [...] (r 7) [...] they do not kn[ow ...] (r 8) [... o]f the for[t ...] (r 9) [...] W[aisi] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ina] ⸢URU⸣.[x x x] / [ša] ⸢qa⸣-ni URU.ú-⸢e⸣-[si] / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL-MEŠ-šú / ⸢il⸣-ti-bi-ú-šu / i-du-ku-šu / LÚv.tur-ta-nu / ⸢ša⸣ ZAG ša qi-i-ni / [m]⸢d⸣[15]—⸢BÀD⸣ / [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣ [(x)] ⸢bi⸣ / [x x x] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ / [ú]-di-na ina URU.ṭu-⸢ur⸣-[uš]-⸢pa⸣-a / [la] e-rab-ba [o] / [i]—⸢su⸣-ri LUGAL be-lí [o] / [i-qab]-bi ma-a [x] KUR.[x x] / [x x] ⸢URU⸣.ḪAL.ṢU a-[x x x] / [x x x] la ú-⸢du⸣-[u x x] / [x x] ⸢ša⸣ URU.ḪAL.⸢ṢU⸣ [x x] / [x x x] ⸢x URU.ú⸣-[e-si x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313779.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313779). 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/P313779/.
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