Position in chronology
SAA 01 194. The Royal Corps and Deportees at Harran (ABL 1073)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (2) [Ever] since I [came ...], a runaway [......] Nani (and) A[...], the cupbearer [of ...], the son of the father-in-law of [...]. I have made them enter the [royal] corps [...] of Harran on account of the [missing] cavalry[men]. Let the king enquire and investigate (the matter), and let them return the men to the royal corps. (14) As to the people of Nani about whom the king my lord wrote to me: "Give any of his people back to him!" — (18) The day he was deported, the Commander-in-Chief and Zeru- ibni called him and questioned him, saying: "Perhaps there is still some…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [TAv] É ana-ku ⸢al*⸣-[lik-an-ni] / LÚ.ḫal-qu-ma ni-[x x x x x] / mna-a-ni ma-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / LÚ.KAŠ.LUL [x x x x x x] / DUMU e-me-šú ša m⸢du?⸣-[x x] / ina UGU LÚ.ša—BAD-ḪAL-[MEŠ x x] / ina ⸢ŠÀ ki⸣-iṣ-ri ša [LUGAL x x] / ⸢x x ša*⸣ URU*.KASKAL-⸢ra⸣-[ni] / ú-⸢še*-ri*-ib*⸣-[šú-nu] / LUGAL liš-al lu-⸢ṣi⸣-[ṣi] / LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ ina ŠÀ ki-[iṣ-ri] / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL lu-sa-ḫi-[ru]…
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 P334718.
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/P334718/..
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/P334718/.
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