Position in chronology
SAA 05 098. Where Did All That Wine Go? (CT 53 042)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant [Aššur]-re[ṣuwa]. Good health to the kin[g, m]y [lord]! (4) Adad-aplu-iddina, the ro[yal body]guard who brought me the sealed order concerning the son of [...]urdâ of Halz[iatbar] — (7) the bodyguard and I got up and [w]ent to Ku[mme]. Ariye [received] us, but did [not] give us any orders; he left and went [to the Pala]ce. (13) The king, my lord, should [g]o and speak with him. The [...] officials (15) [...] of the king, my lord (16) [......] (17) [......] all (Break) (r 2) Let the king, my lord, [...] and say to h[im] as follows: "To whomever did you give 6 homers of barley, 4 homers of wine and 20 sheep?" (r 7) Now, this one will be the closest relat[ive] until a (further) sealed order reaches me.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka m[aš-šur]—re-[ṣu-u-a] / lu DI-mu ⸢a-na LUGAL⸣ [EN]-⸢ia⸣ / mdIM—A—AŠ LÚv.⸢qur-bu⸣-ti / ša un-qu ⸢ina UGU⸣-[ḫi]-⸢ia⸣ na-ṣa-ni / ina UGU ⸢DUMU⸣ m⸢x⸣-[x]-ur-da-a / ša KUR.⸢ḫal-zi⸣—[AD.BAR a]-na-ku / ù ⸢LÚv⸣.[qur-bu]-⸢ti⸣ ni-tab-ba / ina URU.ku-⸢um⸣-[me ni]-tal-ka / ma-ri-e ⸢x⸣-[x]-⸢x⸣-na-ši / ṭè-e-mu-⸢ma*⸣ [la] ⸢iš⸣-kun-⸢na⸣-na-ši / i-tab-ba [ina É].GAL i-tal-ka / LUGAL…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313457.
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/P313457/..
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/P313457/.
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