Position in chronology
SAA 05 226. Orders to Magnates (ABL 0884)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king, my lord, sent me to the magnates; I have (now) communicated them all the orders that the king, my lord, gave me. (10) As to the town where they are encamped, Ir[š]umu is in their hands; they are soon to leave for the king, my lord. (16) As [to] Šarru-emuranni, about whom the king, [my] lo[rd], gave me [or]ders, (I told him): "Not one of your horses and men may be missing if they are to pass before the king." (r 5) As to Nabû-hamatua, about whom the king, my lord, told me: "Let him come and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia*⸣ / ARAD-ka mdPA—PAB—PAB / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ina É LUGAL be-lí / ina UGU LÚ.GAL-MEŠ / iš-pur-an-ni-ni / am—mar LUGAL be-lí / ṭè-e-mu iš-kun-an-ni-ni / gab-bu a-du-ba-šú-nu / ina UGU URU É ⸢šak*⸣-nu-u-ni / URU.ir-⸢šu?⸣-mu / ina ŠU.2-šú-nu / ár-ḫiš ina UGU / LUGAL be-lí-ia / il-la-ku-u-ni / ina ⸢UGU⸣ m⸢MAN⸣—IGI-ni ša LUGAL / be-[lí] ⸢ṭè⸣-e-mu iš-kun-an-ni-ni / nu-uk…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334607.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334607). 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/P334607/.
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