Position in chronology
SAA 05 092. The Urarṭian King Gathers his Troops after Defeat (ABL 0146+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord! (3) The land of the king is well; the fort is well; may the king my lord be well! (5) Guriania is a district between Urarṭu and Cimmeria; it pays tribute to the Urarṭian king. (8) When the Urarṭians went against the Cimmerians and the Urarṭians suffered defeat, whatever troops [...]ed from there [to G]uriania, this [...] some of them and took others as captives, putting [...]. (15) When [the king of Urarṭu escaped] from his enemy, (17) before his trip [......] (18) these [......] (Break) (r 3) 8,000…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia ARAD-ka maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia DI-mu / ⸢a*-na⸣ KUR ša LUGAL DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía / KUR.gu-ri-a-ni-a KUR.na-gi-ú / bir-te KUR.URI bir-te KUR.ga-mir-ra / šu-ú ma-da-at-tú a-na KUR.URI-a.a / i-da-an a-ki-i KUR.URI-a.a / ina UGU KUR.ga-mir-ra il-lik-u-ni / a-ki-i a-bi-ik-tú ina ŠÀ KUR.URI-a.a / ta-áš-šá-ki-nu-ni…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334092.
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/P334092/..
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/P334092/.
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