Position in chronology
SAA 05 283. Arrival of a Royal Messenger (CT 53 658)
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (3) [I]n [his] letter [it was written as follows]: (4) "While [I was] he[re], a messenger of [the king of ... c]ame [t]o [m]e in the city [...]; he had [no]t reached me in [...] (Break) (r 5) thi[s lett]er [ca]me [to me ......] (Rest destroyed)
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/P314070/
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Transliteration
[x x x x x] la [x x x x] / [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] / [ina] ŠÀ e-gír-te-[šú šá-ṭi-ir] / ma-a ki-i an-na-[ka a-na-ku-ni] / ma-a LÚv.A—KIN ša KUR.[x x x x] / [ina] UGU-[ḫi]-⸢ia⸣ a-na URU.[x x x x] / ⸢it⸣-tal-ka ma-a ina [x x x x] / ⸢la?⸣ ik-šu-da-ni [x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x É⸣ [x x x x x] / [x x x] e-⸢tar⸣-[x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ e ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x]-ik-tú [x x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣ ra tú [x x x x x] / [e-gír]-tú an-ni-[tú ina UGU-ḫi-ia] / [it]-⸢tal⸣-ka [x x x 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 P314070.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314070). 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/P314070/.
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