Position in chronology
SAA 05 053. A Murderer Flees to Šubria (ABL 0251)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) A commander-of-fifty of mine, of the Gurrean (troops) from Meturna, killed the mayor of Meturna. From the moment the expedition came, he did not show up to do work with his fellows but, afraid of his deed, took with him 15 Gurreans and went away to Urarṭu. (10) (When) they came and reported it to me, I sent Il-dalâ to Šubria, saying: "Go and bring down your servants." He went, but did he bring down his servants? (13) I sent my messenger back to Il-dalâ, telling him: "This commander-of-fifty and his…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—BÀD—IGI-ia / lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / LÚ.GAL—50-ia šú-u ša LÚ.gur-ra-a.a URU.mu-dur-na-a.a / a-na LÚ.ḫa-za-ni ša URU.mu-dur-na i-du-ka / TAv mar KASKAL il-li-kan-a-ni la il-li-ka / dul₆-lu TAv ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú la e-pu-uš / TAv pa-an ip-ta-làḫ 15 LÚ.gur-ra-a.a / ina qa-a-ti-šú i-ṣab-bat a-na KUR.URI-a i-la-ka / it-tal-ku-u-ni iq-ṭí-bu-u-ni ana-ku…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334186.
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/P334186/..
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/P334186/.
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