SAA 05 215. The Troops of Mazamua (NL 089)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P224439

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant] Adad-issiya. [Good] health to the king, my lord! (4) [As t]o the order that the king, my lord, gave me: "Review the troops of Mazamua and write me!" — (here are the facts): (6) 10 wagons; 20 large-wheeled chariots, 10 (of them) horse-driven, 10 mule-driven; 30 teams; 97 riding horses; 11 chariot drivers; 12 'third men'; [3]0 chariot fighters; 53 grooms of the [t]eams, in all 106 men and [30] chariots. (13) 161 cavalrymen, 130 grooms, 52 ...: in all 343 grooms. (15) [8] lackeys, 12 tailors, 20 cupbearers, 12 confectioners, 7 bakers, 10 cooks: in all…

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

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Transliteration

[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia / [ARAD-ka] mdIM—KI-ia / [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN ṭè-e-mu iš-ku-na-ni-ni / ma-a e-mu-qi ša KUR—za-mu-u-a / a-šur* ⸢šup⸣-ra 10 GIŠ.GIGIR-MEŠ / 20! GIŠ.ut-⸢tar⸣-a-te 10 ša ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ / 10 ša ANŠE.ku-di-ni 30 ANŠE.ú-ra-te / 97 ANŠE.BAD-ḪAL-lu 11 LÚv.mu-kil—KUŠ.PA-MEŠ / 12 LÚv.03.U₅-MEŠ ⸢30⸣ LÚv.A—SIG₅ / 53 LÚv.GIŠ.GIGIR-MEŠ ⸢ANŠE⸣.ú-ra-te / PAB 01 me 06…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P224439.

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/P224439/..
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/P224439/.

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