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SAA 05 046. A Wronged Vassal (CT 53 132)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) "he does/they do not [......] (2) "at your right [......] (3) "Who [......]?" (4) Now, the king, [my] lord [......] (5) ...[......] (6) [They conquer] my towns [and] seize [my subjects] who [have gone to ...] for hired employment. He is chief [...]; on behalf of whom does he [...] from the presence of Ašipâ [...], conquer (my) towns and per[secute] my subjects? (12) I keep writing: "Where is [your] sense?" but he does not give any reason. [I have] many times over [sent] the kal[lāpu] whom the king ap[poin]ted in my service with my messenger, but to no avail. [He has…
Source: 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/P313547/
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Transliteration
⸢ma-a la i⸣-[x x x x x x x] / ina ZAG-ka [x x x x x x x] / ma-a man-nu mi-[x x x x x x x] / ú-ma-a LUGAL EN [x x x x x x] / gi is li ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / URU-MEŠ-ni-ia i-[kaš-šu-du ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ía] / ša a-na na-gúr-te [x x il-li-ku-ni] / ú-ṣab-bu-tú LÚ.GAL—[x x x x x] / šu-tú ina UGU man-ni ⸢ina⸣ [x x x x] / TA IGI ma-ši-pa-a ú-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / URU-MEŠ-ni i-kaš-šad ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ía ú-⸢kaš⸣-[ša-da] /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313547.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313547). source
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/P313547/.
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