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SAA 01 090. A Messenger Kidnapped by a Tribe (ABL 0098)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! (6) (As to) what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[Let] this messenger of yours whom you sent to Birat together with his cavalry [...] the Hamranu tribe" — my messenger [...... (Break) (r 2) from [......] of the city of M[unu' ...] on the 21st of [......] at his behest. (r 6) The day they ente[red ..., my] messenger was taken captive. The chief ... o[f ...] who was there [...] with him; (r 10) Haqi[... rel]eased him in Munu' and wro[te]: "Send me silver!" He is in Munu'; I am now sending the silver.
Source: 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/P334047/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mDÙG.GA—ṣil—É.ŠÁR o* / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / aš-šur dNIN.LÍL a-na LUGAL / EN-ia lik-ru-bu / ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-a-ni / ma-a LÚv.A—KIN*-ka / ša a-na KUR*.bi-ra-a-te / ⸢taš⸣-pur-ú-ni ma-a šu-u / [a-di] ⸢ANŠE⸣.BAD-ḪAL-šú / [TA KUR].ḫa-mar-a-na*-a.a / [x x x LÚv].A*—KIN*-⸢ia* i*⸣-[x x] / e*-[x x x x x x x] / TAv ŠÀ ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ / ša URU.⸢mu*⸣-[nu-uʾ x x x x] / UD…
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 P334047.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334047). source
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/P334047/.
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