SAA 05 154. Fragment on Allegations (ABL 0787)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334558

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-alik-pani. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to what Bel-iddina said in the presence of the king, my lord: "The [...]s [...] to the depu[ty ...]," (7) he [......] (8) I [......] (Break) (r 2) whether the [...s res]pect [their] government and are devoted to it ... (r 5) Let me come and speak with this man in the king my lord's presence.

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

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Transliteration

a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—a-lik—pa-an / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ina UGU ša mEN—SUM-na ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia / iq-bu-u-ni ma-a [x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ / a-na LÚv.⸢02?⸣-[e x x x x x] / šu-u-tú ⸢ina⸣ [x x x x x x] / [a]-⸢na?-ku?⸣ [x x x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] / šúm-ma ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x x] ⸢x x⸣ / a-na É—EN-MEŠ-[šú-nu i-pal]-⸢làḫ⸣-u-ni / e-mar-u-ni a ⸢ḫu da?⸣ ni / lal-li-ka ina pa-an LUGAL / EN-ia TAv LÚ ḫa-ni-u / la-ad-bu-ub

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334558.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334558). 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/P334558/.

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