Position in chronology
SAA 05 103. Manhunt (ABL 0590)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) "Have the men re[ally] not fallen into [their hands] in the city [...]?" (5) I sent Saniye, the city lord, and Kaqqadanu to bring (them), and asked them where the men are. (9) They said: "The men have got scared," and informed me as follows: "The men are in there; let them extend the ... for us until they fall into our hands." (r 5) If the king, [my] lo[rd], orders, Saniye [and Kaqqadan]u [...] before [......] (Rest destroyed)
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/P334405/
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Transliteration
[ma]-⸢a ina URU⸣.[x x x x] / ⸢LÚ⸣.ERIM-MEŠ i-[ba-áš-ši-i] / ina ŠÀ-bi ina* [ŠU.2-šú-nu] / la in*-⸢qu*⸣-[tu] / msa-ni-ie LÚ.⸢EN—URU⸣ / TAv mkaq-qa-da-a-ni / a-sa-par na-ṣu-ú-ni / a-sa-ʾa-al-šú-nu mu-uk LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ / a-le-e ma-a LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ ig-du-ru / a-ki an-ni-e iq-ṭi-bu-u-ni / ma-a LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ ina ŠÀ-bi / šu-nu : ma-a ši-du / lu-ri-ku-na-ši a-du É / LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ ina qa-ti-ni / i-ma-qa-tu-ni-ni / šúm-ma LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí] i-qa-bi / msa-ni-ie [x x x] ⸢ni*⸣ / ⸢ina?⸣ IGI [x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334405.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334405). 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/P334405/.
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