Position in chronology
SAA 05 091. Revolt against the King of Urarṭu (ABL 0144)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord! (3) As regards Naragê, the chief tailor about whom I wrote to the king, my lord: "He and 20 of his fellow eunuchs who conspired against the king have been arrested" — (7) the king of Urarṭu has now entered Ṭurušpâ and questioned them. They have dragged forth and killed the rest of the people involved in the plot — 100 men, including the eunuchs and the bearded courtiers. (13) Urṣenê, the deputy commander-in-chief, brother of Abliuqnu, was likewise arrested in Ṭurušpâ. When Abliuqnu came to Ṭurušpâ, he (i.e.…
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 / ina UGU mna-ra-ge-e LÚv.GAL—ka*-ṣir / ša a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía áš-pur-an-ni / nu-uk 20 LÚv.SAG-MEŠ i-si-šu / ša ina UGU LUGAL id-di-bu-ub-u-ni / ṣa-ab-bu-tú ú-ma-a LUGAL KUR.URI-a.a / ina URU.ṭu-ur-uš-pa-a e-ta-rab / ú-sa-ni-iq-šú-nu ERIM-MEŠ re-ḫu-te / ša i-si-šú-nu i-sa-du-ú-ni / a-di LÚv.SAG-MEŠ a-di LÚv.ša—SU₆-MEŠ /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334090.
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/P334090/..
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/P334090/.
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