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~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 5
SAA 05 052. Šubrian Emissaries on their Way to the King (ABL 0252)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The Šubrian emissaries came to Šabirešu on the 23rd of Adar (XII). (6) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "Who are they?" (They are) Yata', his man in charge of the towns near the Urarṭian border, and with him Abi-yaqâ, a local inhabitant. (10) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "Why did his brother and his deputy, who at the review said they would come, not come?" They say: "Hu-Tešub is ill; these (people) have come to bargain." (16) They have written down on clay tablets the king's men and the…
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