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SAA 05 130. Urzana has Left the Town (CT 53 918)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) We did not disclo[se ......]. (2) He is bringing all the [...] of the country [......], saying: "[Let us grasp] the feet of the k[ing of ...]; otherwise, [we should ...] t[o ......] 200 soldiers." (7) [He has ...] to the king, [my] lord, [...]: "You [......]." (9) What(ever) he tells us [...]. (10) On the 2nd day [... fr]om m[y] presence [......] (Break) (r 1) [they w]ent [away ...] (r 2) pla[ced ...] (r 4) [I wrote to] Saniye: "What order did he g[ive him? I must write] to the king, m[y] lord." (r 7) He (responded): "Urzana [has left] the to[wn ...]; if the pal[ace] herald, [my lord, orders], a messenger [......] (Break) (e. 1) [Now th]en I am sending [t]o the king, my lord, the messenger of mine who [......]; the kin[g, my lord, may a]sk him.
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/P314327/
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Transliteration
⸢la ni-ip-ti⸣ [x x x x x x] / ša KUR gab-⸢bu⸣ [x x x x x x] / ú-bal ma [x x x x x x x] / ma GÌR.2-MEŠ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] / ma ú-la-a a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] / ma LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ 02 me ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / UGU LUGAL be-lí-[ia x x x x] / ma at-ta ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / ša i-qa-ba-na-[ši-ni x x x x] / UD 02-⸢KÁM TA⸣ pa-ni-⸢ia⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ra [x x x x x] / [it]-⸢ta⸣-ta-[ku x x x x x] / iš-ku-[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 P314327.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314327). 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/P314327/.
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