Position in chronology
SAA 01 013. Pitching Camp on the Elamite Border (CT 53 076)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (1) "[......] their [......]; come wi[th your troops and encamp in the pass] of Ura[mmu]." (5) [I am writing to you] right now: this suggestion, the [way he put it], is extremely good. You [know] that this pass [leading to] Urammu is [ver]y difficult [to march through]; there is absolutely no way the Elamite [troops] will be able to get at you. Don't be afraid; at the city of Urammu where you are to pitch the camp [there is] a plain which is [very] good for encamping; it is also [very] good for reconnaissance expeditions, there is [much] grass there, and it is a [good]…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x]-⸢šú⸣-nu ma-[a x x x] / [x x x]-ši ma-a ⸢TAv⸣ [e-mu-qi-ku-nu] / [ma-a] ⸢al⸣-ka-a-ni [ina né-ri-bi] / [ša] URU.ú-ra-⸢am⸣-[mu ma-dak-tú šuk-na] / [ú]-ma-a an-nu-rig [a-sap-rak-ku-nu] / [a]-⸢bu⸣-tu an-ni-tú ki-[i šá iq-bu-u-ni] / [a]—⸢dan⸣-niš tar-ṣa-at at-⸢tu⸣-[nu tu-da] / [ki]-⸢i⸣ né-ru-bu ḫa-an-[ni-ú] / [ša] ⸢URU⸣.ú-ra-am-⸢mu⸣ [a-na e-ta-qi] / [a—dan]-⸢niš⸣ ma-ri-ṣu-u-[ni e-mu-qi] /…
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 P313491.
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/P313491/..
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/P313491/.
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