Position in chronology
SAA 05 246. Waiting for Scouts to Come back (ABL 0309)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the rumour about which the king, my lord, wrote me, I have sent out scouts but they have not yet come back. (8) While waiting for them, [I am submitting] the ki[ng, my lord], this report. (Break) (r 2) They should give it and b[ring it to me]. (r 3) Or if it is not to be ... and there happens to be a man in his company he can dispense with, let them give it to him, and let him bring it. (r 7) A cavalryman should be there to guard him.
Source: 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/P334197/
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Transliteration
a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía / ARAD-ka mEN—IGI.LAL-ni / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ina UGU li-šá-ni ša LUGAL / be-lí iš-pu-ra-an-ni / a-sap-ra LÚv.da-a.a-li / ú-di-ni la il-la-ku-u-ni / ina pa-an-šú-nu a-da-gal / a-ka-an-ni ṭè-e-mu / a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ía ú-ta-ra] / ⸢a?-pa?⸣-[x x x x x] / ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x x] / lid-di-nu lu-⸢bi⸣-[lu-ni] / ú-la-a la-a ša du-⸢lu?⸣-[x] / ši-i LÚ ut-ru i-ba-⸢ši*⸣ / is-si-šú i-za-za / lid-di-nu-niš-šú lu-bi-la / ša—LÚv.BAD-ḪAL li-zi-zi / EN.NUN-šú li-ṣur
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334197.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334197). 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/P334197/.
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