Position in chronology
SAA 05 121. Protest against False Accusations (ABL 0121+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. (3) As to the people of Arzâ about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "I have given you the people entered on the writing-board, the cohort which I formed; these are at your disposal. However, give Arzâ the rest of the people whose (names) I [did n]ot write in the writing-board" — (15) There are no people not on the writing-board at my disposal! In fact, from [the peop]le in the writing-[board whom] the king, my lord, gave me, [x] are at his disposal! (r 3) When the king's messenger c[ame] with me to Kurba[il] (Break) (r 10) After this,…
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 / UGU UN-MEŠ ša mar-za-a.a / ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-a-ni / ma-a UN-MEŠ ša ina GIŠ.le-ʾi / šak-nu-u-ni ma-a ki-ṣir / ša ak-ṣur-u-ni a-di-na-kan-ni / ma-a ḫa-nu-u-te lu ina pa-ni-ka / ù ma-a UN-MEŠ / ut-ru-u-ti / ⸢ša⸣ ina GIŠ.le-ʾi / ⸢la⸣ áš-ṭa-ru-u-ni / [ma]-⸢a⸣ a-na mar-za-⸢a⸣.[a] / di-ni [o] / UN-MEŠ-ma ša la-a [o] / GIŠ.le-ʾi [o] / ⸢la⸣-áš-šu ina…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334069.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334069). 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/P334069/.
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