Position in chronology
SAA 05 249. Stormy Night (CT 53 197)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (1) in [......] (2) Šarru-iqbi [......] (3) where there is water [...] (4) their rear side [...] (5) We waited there. (6) On the night of the 4th day an extremely strong wind was bl[owing]. The sto[rm] was so (strong) it tor[e off] all the tents; people got panicked, horses piled together making a heap. (12) It started at (the culmination of) the Circle star (Corona) and subsided at (the culmination of) the Triplet star (α Herculis). [All is well]; the king, my lord, [can be at ease.] (Break) (r 2) there [......] (r 3) all [......] (r 4) ... [......] (r 5) I [......] (r 6) of the son of B[el-iddina ......] (r 7) on the 4th day in [......] (r 8) watch with him [......] (r 9) going [......] (r 10) arrived [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ina [x x x x x x x x] / URU.MAN—⸢iq-bi x⸣+[x x x x] / ša A-MEŠ ina ŠÀ-bi ⸢a⸣-[x x x] / ku-tu-li-šu-nu ša ⸢ina⸣ [x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi ni-ik-te-ti-[ir] / ina MI ša UD 04-KAM šá-a-⸢ru⸣ / dan-nu ša a—dan-niš i-⸢zi⸣-[qa] / TÚG.maš-kan-MEŠ gab-bu mi-[ḫu-u] / i-ba-áš-ši ú-ta-⸢si⸣-[ḫi] / UN-MEŠ ip-tal-ḫu a—dan-⸢niš⸣ / ANŠE.KUR-MEŠ ina ŠÀ-bi a-ḫa-[iš] / it-ta-ad-bu-ku ina ⸢UGU⸣ / MUL.kip-pi-te ú-⸢sar⸣-[ri] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313612.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313612). 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/P313612/.
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