SAA 05 277. Assembling Troops (CT 53 305)

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313720

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 5

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [in] Arz[uhina ......]. (2) I am w[riting to you righ]t now: [after I have] sent [..., speak] with [NN wh]o [has written] to the Palace ab[out ...]: (5) "Why [is] the wor[k delayed]? To whom did you [......]? Have they p[romoted NN] as city [lord]?" (8) He is [...]; as for you, [be ready] wi[th your army and wi]th your ch[ariot] troops, assemble the Gurreans, the It[u'eans, the ...], the exempt infantry, the kal[lāpu troops and ...] (Break) (r 2) [I said:] "No [......] (r 3) [de]layed [......] (r 4) [... the cr]own prince [......] (r 5) does [n]ot bring [......] (r 6) Mannu-ki-[Adad ......] (r 7) "As [......] (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[ina URU?].⸢ur-zu?⸣-[ḫi-na x x x x] / [an-nu]-rig a-⸢sa⸣-[ap-rak-ku-nu ki-ma x x] / [ú]-⸢se⸣-bi-la TAv [mx x x du-ub-ba] / [šu]-tú ina É.GAL ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x] / [ma]-⸢a⸣ a-ta-a dul₆-⸢lu⸣ [x x x x x] / [ma]-a ina UGU man-nu ta-[x x x x x] / [EN]—⸢URU?⸣-u-te-e ú-⸢se⸣-[x x x x x] / ⸢šu⸣-u at-tu-nu a-⸢di⸣ [e-mu-qi-ku-nu] / [a]-di ERIM-MEŠ ša GIŠ.⸢GIGIR?⸣ [x x x x x] / [LÚv].gur-ru LÚv.i-tu-[ʾu x x…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313720.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313720). 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/P313720/.

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