SAA 05 107. Kill the Assyrian Delegate! (CT 53 098)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313513

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) "['Drive the enemies of] Kumme from yo[ur] midst!' (2) "Now then [the whole] city of Kumm[u] has turned [ag]ainst Ariye; they [...] speak of killing [the royal delegate]." (6) [The day th]at the letter [of Aššur-reṣ]uwa came [to me] with the messenger [of ...] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[LÚv.KÚR-MEŠ ša] ⸢URU.ku⸣-um-me TAv ŠÀ-bi-⸢ku⸣-[nu] / [še-ṣi-a ú]-ma-a an-nu-rig URU.ku-um-⸢mu⸣ / [gab-bi-šu ina] UGU ma-ri-e i-sa-ak-nu / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina UGU du-a-ki / [ša LÚv.qe-pi] ⸢i⸣-da-bu-bu / [ina ŠÀ UD-me] ⸢ša e⸣-gír-tú / [ša maš-šur—re]-⸢ṣu⸣-u-a TAv LÚv.A—KIN / [ša x x x ina UGU-ḫi-ia] ⸢il⸣-lik-u-ni-ni / [x x x x x x x x x]-ka / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ib-šú-nu

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313513.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313513). 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/P313513/.

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