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SAA 05 173. Report on an Urarṭian Defeat (CT 53 099)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [about which] my [lo]rd [inquired, they previously informed me] as follows: (3) "Their king [and his magnates] have been [utterly] defeated on (their) expedition; [x] of his magna[tes] have been killed." (7) I did [no]t have more detailed information, and (thus) did not wr[ite] t[o] my [lo]rd how it happened. (11) Now they have e[ntered] my country from [...] and [are ...ing] the forts [...] (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/P313514/
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Transliteration
[ša] ⸢be⸣-lí i-[x x x x] / [ki]-⸢i⸣ an-ni-e [iq-ṭi-bu-ni] / [ma]-a LUGAL-šú-nu ⸢LÚv⸣.[GAL-MEŠ-šú] / [ina] KASKAL bé-et ⸢il⸣-[lik-u-ni] / ⸢ma⸣-a de-ek-tu-šú-[nu ma-aʾ-da] / ⸢i⸣-du-ku ma-a LÚv.⸢GAL⸣-[MEŠ-šú x] / ⸢de⸣-e-ku ba-ti-⸢iq⸣-[tú] / ⸢la⸣-a aḫ-ru-ṣa ki-[i] / ⸢ša⸣ e-pa-šu-u-ni a-[na] / ⸢EN⸣-ia la-a áš-⸢pu⸣-[ra] / ⸢ú⸣-ma-a TA ŠÀ [KUR.x x] / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ KUR-ia e-[tar-bu-ni] / [URU].⸢bi⸣-ra-⸢te*⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a [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 P313514.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313514). 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/P313514/.
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