SAA 05 156. Inspecting Deportees (ABL 0988+)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334664

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(1) [To the king, our l]ord: [yo]ur [servan]ts [Aššur-a]lik-pani and [Nerg]al-šarrani. Good health to the k[ing, our lord]! (6) As to what the king, [our lord], wrote to us: "When the gov[ernor] arrives, [...] th[e]re with the capti[ves]" — (12) [NN] arrived in Šu[...] on the 6th; we have [now] inspec[ted] the captiv[es] and are herewith writing to the king, [our lord]. (r 1) The people are ve[ry] we[ak]; weather has eaten up [their] loo[ks] and the mountains have crushed them. They are coming ague-stricken. (r 8) [The ki]ng, our lord, should know (this).

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

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Transliteration

[a-na LUGAL] ⸢be-lí⸣-[ni] / [ARAD-MEŠ]-⸢ni-ka⸣ / [maš-šur—a]-lik—pa-ni / [mdU].⸢GUR⸣—MAN-a-ni / ⸢lu šul-mu⸣ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ni] / ina UGU ša LUGAL [EN-ni] / iš-pur-an-na-ši-[ni] / ma-a ki-ma LÚv.EN.[NAM?] / iq-ṭar-ba ma-[a] / TAv LÚv.ḫu-ub-[te] / ⸢an⸣-[na]-⸢ka*⸣-a*-⸢ma? x⸣+[x x] / UD 06-KÁM ⸢m⸣[x x x x x] / ina URU.šu-[x x x] / iq-ṭar-ba [an-nu-rig] / LÚv.ḫu-ub-[tú o] / né-e-ta-[mar] / a-na…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334664.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334664). 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/P334664/.

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