Position in chronology
SAA 01 045. In the Land of Habhu (ABL 0173)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) A cohort commander of the Chief Eunuch delivered me the king's sealed message in the city of Anisu on the 27th. (7) The messenger of the commander of the fort came to me in Anisu; I asked him about the news, and he told me this: "The city of Birate and the whole land of Habhu are well; everybody is doing his work." (13) All is well; the king, my lord, can be glad. (r 1) On the 28th I shall be in the city of Ieri. (SPACER)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mDÙG.GA—⸢IM*—aš-šur*⸣ / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / UD 27-KÁM LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir / ša LÚ.GAL—SAG un-qi LUGAL / ina ŠÀ URU.a-ni-su ina UGU-ḫi-ia / na-ṣa LÚ.A—KIN ša GAL*—⸢bir*-te*⸣ / ina ŠÀ URU.a-ni-su ina UGU-ḫi-ia / it-tal-ka a-na UGU ṭè-e-me a-sa-al-šú / ma-a DI-mu a-na URU.bir-a-te / ma-a KUR.ḫab-ḫu gab-bu ia-mu-tu / du₆-lu-šú e-pa-áš / DI-mu a—dan-niš / lib-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia lu DÙG.GA / UD 28-KÁM ina URU.ie-ri / a-na-ku
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 P334118.
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/P334118/..
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/P334118/.
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