Position in chronology
SAA 05 200. Sending Boys to War (ABL 0312)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, [my lord]! (4) As to what the king, my lord, wro[te me]: "Orga[nize] your army and be on the alert! If [feasible], take the road to Hirite by [...]" — (8) it is not at all feasible! The terrain is difficult; it lies between the mountains, the waters are constricted and the current is strong, not fit for using either wineskins or keleks. The king, lord, knows that the men cannot swim. (14) The troops are assembled, and I am going up to Sumbi, making a detour to [...], [then descend] to Bit-Hamban [......] (Break)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] / ARAD-ka mLUGAL—IGI.LAL-[an-ni] / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] / ša LUGAL EN iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] / ma-a e-mu-qi-ka ku-⸢ṣu*⸣-[ru] / lu et-ka-ka ma-a šúm-mu [ta-ri-iṣ] / KASKAL ša a-na URU.ḫi-ri-te ša ⸢ú⸣-[x x] / a-lik la-áš-šu la ta-ri-ṣi / kaq-qu-ru ma-ri-ṣi bir-te KUR-MEŠ-ni / šu-ú A-MEŠ kar-ku ÍD da-ʾa-na / la a-na KUŠ.maš-ki-ri ka-ra-ri / i-la-ka la a-na KUŠ.ka-la-ki / LUGAL EN…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334200.
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/P334200/..
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/P334200/.
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