SAA 05 229. Clearing up the Royal Road to Mazamua (ABL 0635)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P334439

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (2) there [.....]. (3) [I gave him] the follo[wing] ord[er]: "[......] (Break) (9) [He said]: "[......]; where [......], they are sending [...] to the ri[ght] and left on various errands. (r 1) I remove [...] from Sarê to Dur-Atanate, the Arraphaeans remove [...] from Dur-Atanate to Dur-Taliti, [I] remove [the ...] again from Dur-Taliti to Azari (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi [x x x x] / a-ki ḫa-[an-ni-im-ma] / ṭè-e-[mu a-sa-kan-šú] / nu-⸢uk⸣ [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / i-šá-[x x x x x]-⸢ú⸣-ni / KASKAL.⸢GÍD⸣ [x x x x] / nu-⸢uk⸣ [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / ma-a [x x x x x] / ⸢É⸣ [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / ma-a ma-aʾ-⸢da a⸣-na ⸢ZAG⸣ / a-na 150 : i-šap-pu-⸢ru⸣ / TAv ŠÀ-bi URU.sa-re-⸢e⸣ / a-di URU.BÀD—a-ta-na-⸢te⸣ / ana-ku ú-pa-sa-ak / TAv URU.BÀD—a-ta-na-⸢te⸣ / a-di…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334439.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334439). 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/P334439/.

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