Position in chronology
SAA 05 210. Taking over the Forts of Allabria (ABL 0208)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 5(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-hamatu[a]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The forts of the king, my lord, are well. (6) A Mede forwarded me the (attached) letter from the governor, saying: "Let your messenger bring it to the Palace." (10) I have spoken kindly with the countrymen of the son of Bel-iddina and encouraged them. The son of Bel-iddina (himself) is a criminal and a traitor; he does not obey [the king's orders]. (r 2) [I said]: "Do your work, each in [his house and] field, and be glad; you are now subjects of the king." (r 7) They are peaceful and do their work. I…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdPA—ḫa-mat-u-[a] / lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL / EN-ia šul-mu a-na / URU.ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ ša LUGAL / EN-ia e-gír-ti / TAv IGI LÚv.EN.NAM / LÚv.KUR.ma-da-a.a ú-se-ṣi-ia-a / ma-a LÚv.A—KIN*-ka ina É.GAL / lu-bíl UN-MEŠ KUR / ša DUMU md.EN—SUM-na / dib-bi DÙG.GA-MEŠ i-si-šú-nu / ad-du-bu-ub / ŠÀ-bi ú-sa-áš-kin-šú-nu / LÚv.DUMU md.EN—SUM-na / EN—ḫi-i-ṭu šu-ú / ⸢LÚv⸣.par-ri-ṣu šu-ú /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334152.
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/P334152/..
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/P334152/.
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