SAA 05 168. Report on the Urarṭian Camp (ABL 1081)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334723

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(1) To the vizier, my lord: your servant Adâ. Good health to the Vizier, my lord! (5) As regards the news [of the Urarṭi]an about which my lord [wrote m]e, in [......] (Break) (r 4) On the night of [... he pla]ced [...]s within it; he is encamped in ..., within Uluaza; I have written to the vizier, my lord, where he intends to go. (e. 1) I have written [all that I have heard ...] (e. 2) I have written [......].

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

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Transliteration

a-na LÚv.SUKKAL / BE-ía ARAD-ka / ma-da-a lu DI-mu / a-na LÚv.SUKKAL BE-ía / ⸢ina UGU⸣ ṭè-me / [KUR.URI?]-⸢a⸣.a ša be-li / [iš-pur-an]-⸢ni⸣ ina ŠÀ-bi / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x]-⸢ri*⸣ / i*-⸢na MI?⸣ [x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ / ina ŠÀ-bi-⸢šu⸣ [i-sa]-kan / ina ŠÀ-bi i*-⸢x x⸣-a.a / ina ŠÀ-bi KUR.ú-lu-a-za* / šá-ki-ni É pa-ni-šú-ni / a-na LÚv.SUKKAL BE-ía / a-sap-ra / [x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ a-sap-<ra?> / [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-sap-ra

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334723.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334723). 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/P334723/.

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