Position in chronology
SAA 01 012. The Story of Bel-nuri the Amiable (ABL 1042)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (2) "He is talking about [...] uprooting my father's house." [This] Bel-nuri cannot be trusted in what he says [...]; yet you lifted him and put him around your neck like a seal. For this very reason I relieved him of his office as major-domo, removed him and let you settle him in his house in the center of Arrapha. (9) What he did was perpetually slander Arrapheans in your presence and keep putting inhabitants of Arrapha to the sword. I consequently removed him from Arrapha and appointed him in Lubda. The same things again; he did not change his ways. (r 3) Bel-nuri is…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢x x⸣ bu [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] / ma-a ina UGU na-sa-ḫi ša É—AD-ia ⸢a?⸣-[x x x x*] / i-da-ab-bu-ub mEN—nu-ri [an-ni-u] / ina UZU.EME la ki-in ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / at-ta-⸢ma*⸣ ta-at-ti-ši* ki-i NA₄.KIŠIB / ina li-ba-ni-ka tak-ta-ra-ar-šú TAv UGU / an-ni-im-ma TAv pa-an LÚv.GAL—É-ú-te / up-ta-at-ti-šú at-ti-ši ina qab-si URU.arrap-ḫa / ina É-šú tu-us*-se-ši-ib-šu ka-a.a-ma-nu / kar-ṣi ša…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P334693.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P334693/..
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334693/.
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