SAA 05 178. Fragment of a Report on Urarṭu (CT 53 124)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313539

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...... I said]: "100 (2) [......]ed (3) [......] placed (4) [......] day (5) [...... be]ams (6) [......] his messenger (Break) (10) [...] I [...]. (11) [By the go]ds of the kin[g, my lord], (r 1) [......] 1,000 Itu'eans (r 2) [...... Ṭ]urušpâ (r 3) [will] call [... to account]. (r 4) I have sent [my messenger to ...]; (r 5) [having g]one [...], he [sent] back [...], saying: (r 6) "The king of Urarṭu has written [to] his [governors]: (r 7) "Your [troops] should go and [...]." (r 9) The Urarṭian [......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[x x x x x x x] nu-uk 01 me / [x x x x x x x]-u-ni / [x x x x x x x]-sa-kan / [x x x x x x x] ⸢UD⸣-me / [x x x x x x GIŠ].⸢ÙR⸣-MEŠ / [x x x x x x LÚ].⸢A⸣—KIN-šú / [x x x x x x x] x [x] / [x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x] ⸢mu⸣ na ⸢an⸣ / [x x x x x x] ana-ku / [x x x x] ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ-ni ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ / [be-lí-ia] ⸢lu⸣-u-du-u / [šum-ma x x x] 01 lim LÚ.i-tú-ʾu / [x x x x URU].⸢ṭu⸣-ru-uš-pa-a / [x x x…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313539.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313539). 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/P313539/.

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