Position in chronology
SAA 05 162. Zaba-iqiša Joins the Camp of Rusa (ABL 0441)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) [T]o the king, [my] l[ord]: your [ser]vant Upa[q-Šamaš]. Good health to the ki[ng, my lord]! (4) The magnates departed from Yeri on the 20th of [Tam]muz (IV) and went to Fort Adad-remanni; Ea-Šarru-ibni went with them. I am in Yeri, [keepin]g watch over Zaba-iqiša, as the king, my lord, [told] me. (14) As to the news [of] Zaba-iqiša, [a mes]senger [of] the Hubuškian has come and told the sartinnu: "He has been made to depart, and he is on his way [t]o Rusa." (r 4) It is a substantiated rumor; [I have he]ard it [reported] like this ma[ny] times. I am keeping an eye on [him] now.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] / ⸢ARAD⸣-ka mú-pa-[qa—dUTU] / lu DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / UD 20-KÁM ša ITI.⸢ŠU⸣ / ⸢LÚv⸣.GAL-MEŠ TAv ŠÀ URU.ie-e-ri / ú-ta-mi-šu a-na / URU.bir-te ša m10—rém-a-ni / i-tal-ku mdÉ.A—MAN—DÙ / i-si-šu-nu i-ta-lak / [a]-⸢na⸣-ku ina ŠÀ URU.ie-e-ri / [a-na]-⸢ku⸣ : a-ki LUGAL be-lí / [iq-bu-u]-ni : EN.NUN / [ša m]⸢ÍD⸣.za-ba—BA-šá / [a-na]-⸢ṣar⸣ UGU ṭè-me / [ša…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334305.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334305). 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/P334305/.
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