Position in chronology
SAA 01 046. Undesirable Business in Kumme (CT 53 144)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (2) ...] has sent me [his messenger ...]; (4) he told me [as follows]: (5) "[...] has given orders [......] (6) "the governor of [......] (7) "who set [......] (8) "the town of Saraga [......] (9) "the town of Saraga [......] (10) "the Pa[lace Her]ald ......] (Break) (r 2) [...... from] the city of Arzabia [is residing] in the centre of Kumme and doing business with articles of value to Assyria; if the Treasurer commands, I will arrest him and bring him over." (r 8) I said him as follows: "I'll write to the Palace." Whatever has been told to him [...... (Break) (e. 1) [......] let me write [......] to the king, my lord [...... who we]nt [to ...], their brothers [......] have come [......]
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x] ⸢mu x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ú-se-bi-la [ki-i an-ni-i] / iq-ṭí-bi-a ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x] / ṭè-e-mu i-sa-[x x x x] / LÚv.EN.NAM ⸢URU⸣.[x x x x x] / ⸢iš⸣-ku-nu-ni [x x x x x] / ⸢URU⸣.sa-ra-ga [x x x x x] / ⸢ma⸣-a URU.sa-⸢ra⸣-[ga x x x] / [LÚv].⸢NÍGIR—É⸣.[GAL x x x] / [x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x] URU.ar-za-bi-a ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x]-⸢ka⸣ ina qa-ab-si URU.ku-⸢um⸣-[me]…
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 P313559.
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/P313559/..
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/P313559/.
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