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SAA 05 227. Post Stations and Criminals (ABL 0408)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the express service about which the king, my lord, wrote me through Arbailayu: "Why isn't there any express service?" — (7) When he came to me with the royal bodyguard Ubru-Harran, I harnessed before their coming two mules in Arzuhina for the use of Ubru-Harran. He took them to Arrapha, harnessed two mules for the use of Arbailayu, and went on to Mazamua. (14) Let the king, my lord, a[sk whet]her I did not station a team of [mules] in Dur-Taliti and another one in Tagalagi! When he departed…
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/P334279/
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Transliteration
a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ARAD-ka mdUTU—EN—PAB / lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / ina UGU ka-li-ie ša LUGAL be-lí / ŠU.2 mURU.arba-ìl-a.a iš-pur-an-ni / ma a-ta-a ka-li-iu-u la-šú / ki-i TAv mSUḪUŠ—KASKAL LÚv.qur-bu-te / i-li-kan-a-ni a-na-ku ina URU.ur-zu-ḫi-na / i—pa-na-tú-šú-nu 02 ANŠE.ku-din / ina KI.TA mSUḪUŠ—KASKAL ar-ta-kas / ina URU.arrap-ḫa i-ṣa-bat 02 ANŠE.ku-din / ina KI.TA mURU.arba-ìl-a.a…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Assyria's northern frontier under Sargon II, edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi & Simo Parpola (SAA 5, 1990). ORACC text P334279.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334279). 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/P334279/.
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