Position in chronology
SAA 05 250. Assembling Troops for War and Counting Rations (CT 53 047+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the k[ing, my lord]: your servant [NN]. Good heal[th to the king, m]y [lord]! (4) [We ar]rived in [Kar-Aššur] on the 2nd day. The commander-in-chief, [the ..., the chie]f cupbearer, Taklak-ana-Be[l, Išmann]i-Aššur, and the governor[s of Si'imm]ê, Tillê, Guzan[a and Isa]na: these are the magnates w[ho] arrived [with u]s in Kar-Aššur. (11) As for the whole royal entourage and the ... of the magnates, none have arrived. We are readying the first contingent of Ne[rgal-e]ṭir which is arriving, just in case the king, my lord, should say: "Draw up the battle array and proceed against the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢a-na LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia] / ARAD-ka [mx x x x x] / lu-u šul-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL be-lí]-⸢ia⸣ / UD 02-KAM ina ⸢URU⸣.[kar—daš-šur ni]-⸢iq*⸣-ṭi-rib / LÚ.tur-ta-nu [x x x LÚ].⸢GAL⸣—KAŠ*.LUL* / mtak-lak—a-na—⸢EN⸣ [mḪAL]-⸢ni*⸣—aš-šur / ù LÚ.EN.NAM-[MEŠ ša URU.si-ʾi-me]-e / URU.til-e URU.gu-za-⸢na⸣ [URU.i-sa]-na / an-nu-ti šú-nu LÚ.GAL-MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ [i]-⸢si*⸣-ni* / ina URU.kar—daš-šur iq-ri-bu-u-ni / ù…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313462.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313462). 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/P313462/.
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