Position in chronology
SAA 05 213. A Case Concerning a Town (ABL 1407)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) A letter (to) Nabû-hamatua: your servant Kuškayu. Good health to my lord! (4) Please present before Aššur-šarru-uṣur the case of the town in my hands which I told you about. (9) Let him qu[ick]ly send a letter to the city overseer or to the prefect, telling him to remove everybody from the orchard. (r 8) I will keep vigil there.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
IM mdPA—ḫa-am-mat-u-a / ARAD-ka mku-uš-ka-a.a / lu DI-mu a-na EN-ía / de-e-ni / ša URU ŠU.2-a.a / ša a-qa-ba-kan-ni / ina pa-ni maš-šur—MAN—PAB / qi*-bi / e-gír-ti liš-pu-ru / ⸢ki* ár?-ḫiš*⸣ / a-na LÚv.šá—UGU—URU / šúm*-mu a-na / LÚv.šak-nu / liš-pu-ru / ma-a LÚ / TAv ŠÀ-bi / GIŠ.SAR lu-še-li / ⸢la⸣-aḫ-ri-di / ina ŠÀ-bi-šú
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334887.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334887/..
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/P334887/.
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