Position in chronology
SAA 05 176. Military Movements in the Northeast (CT 53 133)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) Ass[yria ......] (4) one [......] (5) to And[ia ......] (6) to Assyria [......] (7) [will be] completed [......] (8) the road to [......] (9) I shall go [......] (10) Whoever [lays] hands [on ......] (11) I shall cut [...]; at the same time [...] (12) the king of Assyria aga[inst ......] (13) the pass of Sua [......] (14) which the Shepherd [......] (15) [t]hese [......] (Break) (Reverse too broken for translation) (e. 1) [When] I came [to ...], they brought the criminals and thieves of [...] away [from the p]ass. Truly, [...]; I did not trespass [up]on Urarṭian territory.
Source: 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/P313548/
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Transliteration
⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] / nu-[x x x x x x x x x] / KUR—aš-⸢šur⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / 01-en ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / a-na KUR.an-⸢di⸣-[a x x x x x x] / a-na KUR—aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ [x x x x x x] / ug-da-dam-[mar x x x x x x] / ḫar-ra-nu ša [x x x x x x] / al-la-ka bi-⸢is⸣ [x x x x x] / man-nu ša Á.2-⸢šú⸣ [x x x x x] / a-bat-taq is-se-niš [x x x x x] / LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x] / né-rab…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313548.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313548). 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/P313548/.
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