Position in chronology
SAA 05 149. The Foul Dealings of the Deputy (ABL 1273)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant [NN]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! (3) The king, my lord, knows that [...], the god of our [...] is ... upon [the Hargaean]s. They are [the king] my lord's (people). (6) [They ......], they perform the labour duty, they [have] submitted [to ...]. Their [...] have been utterly destroyed, their [......] (Break) (12) The king, my lord, [... mu]ch; (13) [...] of Hargu is indebted [...]. (14) The deputy of the palace herald has (already) received from him [x mi]nas of silver [in] the middle of Arbela. Now, ag[ai]n, they say: "3,6[00 person]s are dying…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia ARAD-ka m[x x x x] / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] / LUGAL be-lí ú-da ki-i [x x x] / DINGIR* ša* [x]+⸢x⸣-ni i-na ⸢UGU⸣ [KUR.ḫar-ga-a].⸢a?⸣ / ⸢am*⸣-ra-⸢šu*⸣-[nu?]-⸢ni⸣ šu-nu ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL] EN-ia / šu-nu [x x x x x x] EN il-ki / šu-nu [x x x x] ⸢iḫ*⸣-ta-an-šu / ḫa-pu-⸢su*⸣-[nu x x x] ⸢uḫ*-ta⸣-pi-ú / i-⸢ta⸣-[x x x x]-u-šú-nu / ina ⸢ša?⸣ [x x x x] ⸢pa?⸣ [x] ku [x 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 P334825.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334825). 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/P334825/.
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