Position in chronology
SAA 05 045. Urarṭian Offensive against Mannea and Zikirtu (ABL 0215)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) The very best of health to the king, my lord! Your servant Hu-Tešub. (3) As to the news of the Urarṭians concerning which the king, my lord, wrote me: "[Write me] quickly whatever you have heard" — (6) (even) when I heard false ..., I wrote [to the kin]g, my lord! Now [...... on the ...th of] Marchesvan (VIII) (9) [...... the magn]ates (Break) (r 1) [......the to]wn A[...] (r 2) [...... have ...]ed the [...]s of the fort. (r 3) "If [things have gone badly] for him, he will be sta[ying] in Mannea; [i]f things have gone well for him, he will have attacked the Zikirteans." (r 8) This is what I have heard.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ía a—dan-niš a—dan-niš / lu-u DI-mu ARAD-ka mḫu—te-šub / ina UGU ṭè-e-me ša KUR.URI-a.a / ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni ma-a / [mi]-i-nu ša taš-mu-u-ni ár-ḫiš / [šup-ra] ki-i ⸢x⸣ sur-rat áš-mu-u-ni / [a-na] ⸢LUGAL* EN*-ía* a*⸣-sa*-par ú-ma-a / [x x x x x x x] ⸢ITI⸣.APIN / [x x x x x x x LÚv].⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ / [x x x x x x] ⸢URU?⸣.a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ?⸣ ša URU.ḪAL*.⸢ṢU*⸣ / [x x x…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334157.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334157/..
Translation excerpted from Lanfranchi, G.B. & Parpola, S. 1990. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces. SAA 5. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa05/P334157/.
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