SAA 05 196. A Letter from Hubuškia (CT 53 409)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313822

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (5) [...] of the house of Tu[...], (6) [wh]en his son f[led], (7) [... U]rmakinn[u ...] (8) [did not] come [...] (9) [...] Iau-'a[...] (10) [No]w he and [...] (11) [At]â-idri [had an au]dience [with me] (13) [... the mo]untain from Hub[uškia] (14) [...] Hubuš[kia ...] (15) [...] on [...] (Break) (r 2) "There is one [...]; (r 3) "he is Bel-qatua [...]. (r 4) Now, muc[h ...] (r 5) opposite them [...] (r 6) [...] the hands of the king [...]. (r 7) [As to what I said t]o the king, [my] lo[rd]: "Ever sinc[e the king, my lord, sent me t]o Hubuš[kia], they have [...]ed me in [...] and [...] (r 12) [...] Hub[u]š[kia ...] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[x x x x x] ⸢a⸣ [x x x] / [x] ša É m⸢tu*-ú-x⸣+[x x x] / [ki]-i DUMU-šu in-[na-bit-u-ni] / [x m]⸢ur⸣-ma-ak-in-⸢nu⸣ [x x x] / [la-a] ⸢il⸣-li-ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x] mia-ú—⸢ʾa⸣-[x x x x] / [an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ šu-u [x x x x x] / [ma]-⸢ta⸣-a—id-ri [ina pa-ni-ia] / [i]-⸢ti⸣-ti-is-⸢su⸣ [x x x x] / [x x] ⸢KUR⸣-e TAv KUR.ḫu-⸢bu⸣-[uš-ki-a] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ KUR.ḫu-bu-⸢uš⸣-[ki-a x x] / [x x x x] ina UGU [x 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 P313822.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313822). 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/P313822/.

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