Position in chronology
SAA 15 181. Sending the People of Hazannu to the King (ABL 0212)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-belu-[taqqin]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Concerning the people of Hazannu about whom the king, my lord, wrote me, I have now gathered them all, written them down by name, and am herewith sending them to the king, my lord: (8) Ubaru, his brother Nabû-bani, one suckling son, two women, total 5; (10) Palihka-libluṭ; (11) Nabû-aha-ereš, his brother, one son of 4 spans, two women, total 5; (12) Zazaya, one son of 4 spans, one woman, two daughters, total 5; (13) Harranû; (14) Amat-Bel-uṣur, one son of 5 spans, three women, total 5; (15)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / ARAD-ka maš-šur—⸢U*⸣—[LAL-in] / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-⸢lí-ía⸣ / ina UGU UN-MEŠ ša mḫa-za-⸢nu⸣ / ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni / an-nu-rig gab-bi-šú-nu up-ta-ḫir / a-na šu-ma-a-ti a-sa-ṭar a-na pa-an / LUGAL be-lí-ía ú-se-bi-la mú-ba-ra / mdPA—ba-ni PAB-šú 01 DUMU GA 02 MÍ / PAB 05 mpa-li-iḫ-ka—lib-luṭ / mdPA—PAB—APIN-eš PAB-šú 01 DUMU 04 / 02 MÍ PAB 05 mza-za-a 01 DUMU 04…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334155.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334155). source
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334155/.
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