SAA 19 185. Urarṭian Fort Commanders in Arbela (CTN 5 p. 107)

~730 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P393671

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 19

High confidence

(1) To the king, [m]y lord: your servant Šulmu-beli. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The Urarṭian fort commanders, whom the governor of Calah brought, are (now) in Arbela. Will they stay there, (or) shall we bring them to Calah? What are the king [m]y [lord's ord]ers? (Break) (r 1) Now [what] are the king my lord's orders?

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

Transliteration

a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ / ARAD-ka mDI-mu—EN / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / LÚv.GAL—ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ KUR.URI.KI-a.a / ša LÚv.EN.NAM ša URU.kal-ḫi / na-ṣa-ni ina URU.arba-ìl šú-nu / ⸢ŠÀ⸣-ma-a lu-u šú-nu ina URU.kal-ḫi / nu-bal!-šú-nu mì-nu ša LUGAL / ⸢be*-lí*⸣ [i]-⸢qa-bu-ni⸣ / ⸢ú-ma-a⸣ [mi-nu] ⸢ša LUGAL EN⸣ / ⸢i⸣-qa-⸢bu⸣-ni

Scholarly note

Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393671.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P393671). 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/P393671/.

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