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SAA 05 084. The Mannean King Raids Urarṭian Cities (ABL 0381)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The Mannean has attacked the Urarṭian cities in the district along the lake shore but has left and gone up (the mountains). (9) Abaluqunu, the governor of Muṣaṣir, and Ṭunbaun, the governor of Kar-sipar[ri], have gone to the Mannean border, to guard (it). (r 4) The Urarṭian is in Ṭuruṣpâ, making his sacrifices. All the governors are with him.
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/P334257/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / KUR.man-a.a i-na ŠÀ URU-MEŠ-ni / ša KUR.URI-a.a / i—na-gi-e ša šid-di / ti-amat i-zu-qu-pu / i-ti-ši e-te-li / ma-ba*-lu-qu-nu LÚv.EN.NAM / ša URU.mu-ṣa-ṣi-ri / mṭu-un-ba*-un LÚv.EN.NAM / ša ⸢URU⸣.kar-si-par-[ri] / i-na UGU ta-ḫu-⸢me⸣ / ša KUR.man-a.a i-tal-ku / a-na ma-ṣar-te / KUR.URI-a.a / i-na URU.ṭu-ru-uš-pa-a šu-u / UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ-šú e-pa-áš / LÚv.EN.NAM-MEŠ gab-bu / i—pa-ni-šú šu-nu
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334257.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334257). 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/P334257/.
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