SAA 05 112. Urarṭian Movements in Waisi (CT 53 114)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313529

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [B]efore [him, Kaq]qa[danu had en]tered Wai[si] in Tishri (VII); the king entered the city [af]ter him. (6) I have [not y]et heard what happened to [tho]se men, [wheth]er they [have] been killed [or] deported. (r 3) [A mess]enger of Urzana, [king of Mu]ṣaṣir, [and a messenger of] Arizâ have [c]ome [to me] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[x x x mkaq]-qa-[da-nu] / [x ina pa]-na-tu-u-[šu] / [ina] ⸢ITI.DUL⸣ ina ŠÀ URU.ú-e-[si] / [e]-tar-ba LUGAL / [i]—da-tú-u-šu e-tar-ba / [ú]-⸢di⸣-na ina UGU ERIM-MEŠ / [am-mu]-te la-⸢a⸣ áš-me / [mi-nu] ša ši-ti-ni / [šúm]-⸢mu⸣ i-du-ku-šu-nu / [šúm-mu] ú-šá-gal-u-šú-nu / [LÚv.A]—⸢šip⸣-ri ša mur-za-na-a / [LUGAL KUR.mu]-ṣa-ṣi-ri / [LÚv.A—šip-ri ša] mú-ri-za-a / [ina UGU-ḫi-ia it]-tal-ku-⸢ni⸣ / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [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 P313529.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313529). 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/P313529/.

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