Position in chronology
SAA 05 113. All Quiet on the Northern Front (ABL 0123)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) As to the orders that the king, my lord, gave me concerning the watch of the Urarṭian, ever since I entered Kurbail my messengers have been going back and forth to Nabû-le'i, Aššur-belu-uda''an and Aššur-reṣuwa. (14) We have not [gotten] a whiff of anybody or anything. Everybody is doing h[is] work, there is no hostility at all. (r 1) We keep hearing as follows: "The Urarṭian has not come out of Ṭurušpâ." Nevertheless, [w]e are ke[eping] the watch about which the k[ing, my lord,] ga[ve] me orders — we are not negligent. (r 10) I arrived in Kurbail on the 16th day of Tammuz (IV), and am sending (this) letter to the king, my lord, on the 20th of Ab (V).
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mgab-bu—ana—aš-šur / ina UGU ṭè-e-me / ša LUGAL EN iš-ku-na-ni-ni / ina UGU ma-ṣar-ti / ša KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭa-a.a / TAv É ina URU.kur-ba-ìl / e-ru-bu-u-ni / LÚv.DUMU—šip-ra-ni-ia / ina UGU mdPA—ZU / ina UGU maš-šur—EN—KALAG-an / ina UGU maš-šur—re-ṣu-⸢u-a⸣ / il-lu-ku il-la-ku-u-ni / ši-⸢ir*⸣—šu-me-e / ša ⸢LÚ*⸣ ša* ⸢me*⸣-me-ni / la né-[ṣi-in] ⸢ia⸣-mu-ut-tum / dul-lu-⸢šu*⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334071.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334071). 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/P334071/.
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