SAA 05 128. Fragment of a Report on Urarṭu (CT 53 215)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313630

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(1) [T]o the king, [my lord]: your [servant] Na[bû-le'i]. Good health to the king, [my] l[ord]! (4) The forts are well; the land of the king, [my] lord, is well. (6) As to the order which the king, my lord, ga[ve me]: "Send your messenger to Bi[rate] and send me a detailed repo[rt on] the [Urarṭian]" — (10) [...] to the country [......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL [be-lí-ia] / [ARAD]-ka md⸢PA⸣—[ZU?] / ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ia] / ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na URU.bi-ra-⸢ti⸣ / DI-mu a-na KUR ša LUGAL be-lí-[ia] / ša LUGAL be-lí ṭè-e-mu iš-⸢kun⸣-[an-ni] / ma-a LÚv.A—KIN-ka a-na URU.bi-[ra-ti] / ⸢šup-ru⸣ ma-a ⸢ṭè-e-mu⸣ [ša] KUR.[URI-a.a] / [ḫu]-ur-ṣu šup-[ra x x x x] / [x] ⸢a⸣-na KUR.[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 P313630.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313630). 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/P313630/.

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