Position in chronology
SAA 05 088. The Urarṭian Troops Set out to Muṣaṣir (ABL 0380)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, [my] lo[rd]: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) 3,000 foot soldiers, their prefects, and the commanders of the kallāpu troops of Setini, the governor opposite me, have set out towards Muṣaṣir and crossed the Black River. All the pack animals of Setini are with him. (12) The troops of Sunâ, the governor opposite Ukku, have also set out towards Muṣaṣir. (r 5) I have heard that the king is in Waisi; he will be going but has not yet departed.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ía] / ARAD-ka maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / 03 lim LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ GÌR.2-MEŠ / LÚv.GAR-nu-te LÚv.GAL—kal-lab-MEŠ / ša mse-e-ti-ni LÚv.EN.NAM / ša pu-tu-u-a* a-na URU.mu-ṣa-ṣir / ú-ta-me-šu ÍD.MI / e-tab-ru ANŠE.a-ṣap-pu-šú / ⸢nam*⸣—ma-la ša mse-e-ti-ni / ina* pa-ni-šu šu-ú / ša msu-na-a / LÚv.EN.NAM / ša pu-ut KUR.ú-ka-a.a / LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ-šu / ú-ta-mi-šu-ma / a-na URU.mu-ṣa-ṣir / a-se-me ma-a LUGAL / ina ŠÀ URU.ú-e-si / il-lak ú-di-na / la ú-nam-maš
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334256.
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/P334256/..
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/P334256/.
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