Position in chronology
SAA 05 221. News from Mannea (ABL 1416)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Adad-issiya]. Good he[alth to the king, my lord]! (4) As to what the king, [my] lo[rd, wrote me]: "Why have you [not sent me] an[y news] of the Mannean that you have h[eard]?" — (7) [he has come] to our border, [made] his sacrifices, and returned (home); [the ... have gone] to greet him. (11) The messengers o[f ... have come] from Bar[..., and presented him] the greetings of [...]. (Break) (r 2) [......] where they are [...]. (r 3) As to [NN] about whom the king, [my] lo[rd, wrote me]: "Wh[y does he not ...] to m[y] presen[ce]?" (r 7) He does not…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] / ARAD-ka m[dIM—KI-ia] / lu-u DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni ma-a] / a-ta-a mì-⸢i-nu⸣ [ši-ti-ni] / ša KUR.man-na-a.a ⸢taš⸣-[me? la taš-pu-ra] / ina ta-ḫu-mì-i-ni [it-tal-ka] / UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ-šú* [e-tap-šá] / i-su-ḫu-ru ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ina UGU-ḫi-šú a-na DI-[me it-tal-ku] / LÚv.A—šip-ri-MEŠ ⸢ša?⸣ [x x x] / TAv URU.MAŠ-⸢da?⸣-[x x x x x] / DI-mu ša [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 P334894.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334894). 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/P334894/.
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