Position in chronology
SAA 05 179. Purge in an Urarṭian Province (ABL 1295)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Ever since the king of Urarṭu] came [...], the country has been in a state of alarm. He has taken the governor with him to Ṭuruš[pâ]; he has been discharged. (r 5) The deputy and the village manager have been discharged [as well]. The mighty of the land have been raging among themselves [...], saying: (r 9) "Why, [wh]en you [...], (r 10) [...] the overseer of [......]" (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢te* ru*⸣ [x x] / il-li-kan-ni : ma-a-tu [o] / e-ta-ka : LÚ.EN.NAM [o] / i-si-šu : ina URU.ṭu-ur-uš-[pa-a] / i-ti-ši : pa-a-tu [o] / LÚ.02-u LÚ.GAL—URU-MEŠ-[ma] / ⸢pa*⸣-tu-ú : KALAG-MEŠ ša KUR [o] / [ina] ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu : ir-tu-ʾu-⸢bu⸣ / [x x]+⸢x⸣-tú* :* ma-a : a-ta-a / [ki]-⸢i⸣ at-tu-nu : tu-[x x] / [x x x] LÚ.šá—UGU—[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 P334836.
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/P334836/..
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/P334836/.
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