Position in chronology
SAA 05 079. Capturing Runaways (ABL 0245)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-belu-da''in. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The mule stable attendant whom I brought forth in search of the runaway people of the country has brought forth men from my neighbourhood and given them to me. All Halziatbareans have run away in great numbers and are (scattered) all over the countries. The mule stable attendant is desperate, saying: "It is an impasse." (15) Now Nabû'a, the mule stable attendant who was appointed in charge of the Chaldeans, has brought me 380 persons; a number of them remain in Yasumu and in Bit-Zamani. (r 7) Let them send him a letter (telling him) how he is to bring forth the Chaldea[ns] compl[etely], and how he is to assemble the runaway people of the country and bring them to me.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—EN—KALAG-in / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia / LÚv.ša—É—ku-din / ša ina UGU UN-MEŠ KUR ḫal-qu-te / ú-še-ṣa-an-ni / LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ TAv ba-ta-ba-ti-ia / ú-se-ṣi-a i-ta-an-na / KUR.ḫal-zi—AD.BAR-a.a / gab-bi-šú-nu ma-aʾ-da / ḫal-qu ina ŠÀ-bi KUR-MEŠ / gab-bu šu-nu / LÚv.ša—É—ku-din / da-li-iḫ ma-a KASKAL / ka-ri-im an-nu-rig / mdPA-ú-a / LÚv.ša—É—ku-din / ša ina IGI…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334180.
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/P334180/..
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/P334180/.
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