Position in chronology
SAA 05 097. Troop Movements in Kumme (ABL 0147)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) [To the] tr[easurer, my lord, your servant] Aššur-r[eṣuwa. Good h]ealth to [my lord]! (4) As to the troops in [Kumme] about whom my lord wrote me, I have moved up [some of them], but have not yet got the others under way. (8) The equipment of Ariye and Arizâ is in order, but they have not y[et] departed; when they do set out, my messenger will go ahead of [them], and [then return] to me. (14) My lord knows that the days [......] (Break) (r 1) [...] was strong [......] (r 2) I have r[eaped] the harvest. If my lord o[rders], I shall [...] reed altars. My lord should send word that the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a-na LÚv].⸢IGI⸣.[DUB be-lí-ía] / [ARAD-ka m]aš-šur—⸢re⸣-[ṣu-u-a] / [lu] ⸢DI-mu⸣ a-na [be-lí-ía] / ⸢ina UGU⸣ ERIM-MEŠ ša ina ⸢URU⸣.[ku-um-me] / ⸢ša be⸣-lí iš-pur-an-ni [am-mu-te] / ú-se-li am-mu-[te] / ú-di-na la ú-ša*-⸢lak⸣ / ma-ri*-e ma-ri-za-a [o] / a-nu-su-nu tar-ṣa-at ú-[di-na] / la ú-na-maš-ú-ni [o*] / ki-ma ú-na-maš-ú-ni [o] / LÚv.A—KIN-ía ina pa-na-at-<u>-šú-[nu] / i-lak ina UGU-ḫi-ia…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334093.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334093). 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/P334093/.
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