SAA 19 026. Digging a Moat; Pursuit to the Mountain (CTN 5 p. 166)

~730 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P393614

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 19

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] which [...] (2) [which] in the town of [...] (3) they sel[ec]ted the [...]s that are on [... and put them] in irons; they are diggi[ng] a moat on [{ithis}] side of the outer wall. (7) Those approximately 400 Gurreans had been sen[t out] to raid [the steppe]. A guard sa[w] (this and) a cry was sounded. We pursued the[m], and they took to the snowy mountain in front of them. We caught them from the town of Yauna and R[e]š-ṣurri. (16) I have sent 200 men to the commander-in-chief, who says that they should be brought to the Palace. 24 men have died here. There are…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 19 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

[x x x] ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] / [ša] ina ŠÀ-bi URU.[x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ-⸢te?⸣ ša ina ⸢UGU?⸣ [x x] / ⸢ib*-te*⸣-ru* ⸢si*⸣-par-ri AN.BAR* [i-sak-nu] / ḫi-ri-ṣu a-na ba-at-ti [an-ni-ti] / ša šal-ḫi-⸢e⸣ i-ḫa-ru-⸢ṣu⸣ / am-mu-te ⸢LÚv.qur-ru⸣ 04 me / ši-⸢ḫi-iṭ⸣ [EDIN] ⸢ú⸣-se-⸢ṣi⸣-[ú] / LÚv.ša—EN.NUN [o] e-ta-⸢mar⸣ / ⸢ki⸣-il-⸢lu⸣ it-taš-⸢kan⸣ / ⸢ni⸣-ir-ti-di-ip-šú-⸢nu⸣ / a-na KUR-e ša ku-pe-⸢e⸣ / i-ṣab-tu…

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393614.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P393614). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P393614/.

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