SAA 05 216. Fragment Mentioning Aza, King of Mannea (CT 53 885)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P314294

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

High confidence

(1) To the kin[g, my lord]: your servant [NN]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! (4) The day that the [army and the ...] of the Urarṭian [......], (6) Azâ [......] (7) ...[......] (8) to the [......] (9) we [......] (Break) (r 1) ca[me] (r 2) [......] (r 3) came [......], (r 4) saying: "Why [......] (r 5) no bread [......]?" (r 6) The palace herald [......] (r 7) "The Urarṭian [......] (r 8) from/with [......] (r 9) [...] 7 [...] (r 10) the rest [......] (r 11) "Of [......] (e. 1) [......] the sartinnu; take [...] (e. 2) and put [......].

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

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Transliteration

a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] / LÚv.ARAD-ka m[dIM—KI-ia] / lu-u DI ⸢a-na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] / UD-mu ša LÚv.[e-mu-qi? x x] / ša KUR.URI-a.[a x x x x x] / ma-za-a [x x x x x x x] / e-ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / a-na ⸢LÚv⸣.[x x x x x x x] / ni-[x x x x x x x x x] / i-⸢tal⸣-[x x x x x x x] / i-tu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / i-ta-lak [x x x x x x] / [ma]-a a-ta-a [x x x x x] / NINDA-MEŠ la-a [x x x x x] / LÚv.600—É.GAL…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P314294.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P314294). 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/P314294/.

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