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SAA 05 148. A Visit by Urzana’s Brother (ABL 1048)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN]. Good health [to the king, my lord]! May Aššur, Bel, and [Nabû] giv[e you length of days]! (5) [... is] in Muṣ[aṣir]; [the rest of] the governors [......]. (8) As to the news of the Urarṭ[ian], the brother of Urzan[a] has c[ome t]o Šulmu-beli, [saying]: "He has returned [...]" (Break) (r 2) I shall set it up [in the ...] of the [...] palace. (r 3) I am in the city of [...], working on the [...]. The ki[ng, my lord], can be glad.
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/P334698/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / [ARAD-ka mx x x x x] / lu DI-mu [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] / aš-šur EN ⸢d⸣[PA UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ] / li-di-⸢nu⸣-[nik-ka x x x x] / ina KUR.mu-uṣ-[ṣa-ṣir šu-u x x x] / LÚ.EN.NAM-MEŠ [x x x x x] / UGU ṭè-e-me ša KUR.URI-[a.a*] / ŠEŠ-šú ša mur-za-⸢na⸣-[a] / [ina] ⸢IGI*⸣ mDI-mu—EN ⸢i⸣-[tal-ka] / [ma-a] ⸢i⸣-su-ḫu-[ru x x x] / [x x] ⸢pa⸣-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x] ⸢i? na x⸣+[x x x] / ⸢ša*⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334698.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334698). 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/P334698/.
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