Position in chronology
SAA 05 223. Preparing for Battle with Urarṭian Troops (ABL 0596)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (1) as many as [...] remain in [......]... (4) "The Urarṭian troops advanced to the border; he went out to meet them in [...] of [......]" (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina [x x x x x] / mar [x x x x] / re-ḫe ú-⸢sa?-x⸣+[x x] / ma-a LÚv.e-mu-⸢qi⸣ / ša KUR.URI ina UGU / ta-ḫu-me / i-tal-ku-u-ni / ma-a i—ni-ir-ti-šú-nu / i-tú-⸢ṣi i⸣-ta-lak / a-na [x x x] / ša* [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 P334410.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334410). 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/P334410/.
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