Position in chronology
SAA 05 186. Exchanging Messengers (CT 53 407)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(Beginning destroyed) (2) [...-er]eš, a [...], [and ...]ayu, a subordinate of [NN, have co]me to me. The king kn[ows that they are] distant [...]. (6) [I have now sent] m[y messenger] to [him]; as soon as he returns [t]o me, [I shall immediately w]rite to the king, [my lord]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] / [mdx]—⸢APIN⸣-eš ⸢LÚv.A⸣—[KIN?] / [x x x]-a.a ša ŠU.2 [mx x] / [it-tal?]-⸢ku?⸣-u-ni LUGAL ⸢ú⸣-[da] / [x x x] ⸢pa⸣-ti-ú-te [šu-nu] / [LÚv.A—KIN]-⸢ia⸣ ina UGU-ḫi-[šú] / [a-sa-par] ki-ma-a / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ia i-suḫ-ra / [ár-ḫiš ina] UGU LUGAL / [EN-ia a]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ra
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P313820.
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/P313820/..
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/P313820/.
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