Position in chronology
SAA 05 228. Criminals Again (ABL 0599)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (2) I have sent [......]. (3) [NN], a servant of the go[vernor of ...] and his family are [st]aying on the [other] side (of the river). Wha[t ar]e the king my lord's orders? (8) Likewise, there are some criminals (whom) Nimarkayu, a [serv]ant of the Crown Prince, seized and brought to the Palace: (14) Abi-ram and Dala-Il, in all two Arzuhinaeans, and with them two Arraphaeans; they have questioned them in the Palace. (r 5) I am [no]w s[ending over] the criminals who were their accomplices. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] / ú-se-bíl [mx x x] / ⸢ARAD-šú⸣ ša LÚv.⸢EN*⸣.[NAM] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ šu-ú [ù] / ⸢É?⸣-su ina ba-⸢ti⸣ [am-mì-ti] / [kam]-mu-su : mì-⸢i*⸣-[nu] / ša LUGAL be-lí <$x x$> / i-⸢qa*⸣-bu-u-ni i-se-niš / LÚv.LUL-MEŠ šú-nu / [m]ni-mar-ka-a.a / ⸢ARAD⸣-šú ša DUMU—LUGAL / ⸢ú⸣-ṣa-bi-ti / ⸢ina*⸣ É.GAL na-aṣ-ṣa / ⸢m*⸣AD—ra-me / mda-la—DINGIR PAB 02 / URU.ur-zu-ḫi-na-a.a / 02 URU.arrap-ḫa-a.a i-si-šú-nu / ina É.GAL ú-sa-ni-qu-šú-nu / LÚv.LUL-MEŠ ša i-si-šú-nu / [an-nu]-⸢rig?⸣ ú-⸢se*⸣-[bi]-⸢la⸣
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334412.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334412). 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/P334412/.
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