Position in chronology
SAA 15 090. Concluding Peace Treaties with Kuluman and Sikris (ABL 0129)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) [To the king, my lord: yo]ur [servant] Mannu-ki-Ninu[a. Good health to the king, my lord]! The land of the king my lord is well. (3) [Concerning the Zabg]agaeans about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Inquire and observe their comings and goings, and write to me!" — they have now returned from the house of Daltâ, entered Kuluman with their brothers, and are staying there. (7) And when I went and concluded a treaty with the Kulumaneans, and pacified them, they too (= the Zabgagaeans) [mad]e peace with them. They appealed to me on account of Zabgaga, saying: "Return our ci[ty-lord] and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ía ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ mman-nu—ki—URU.⸢ni-nu⸣-[a] / [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-a] DI-mu a-na KUR ša LUGAL EN-a / [ina UGU URU.zab]-⸢ga⸣-ga-a.a ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni / ⸢ma⸣-[a] šá-al a-mur É e-ra-bu-u-nu ú-ṣu-u-ni / šu-up-ra ú-ma-a TAv É mdal-ta-a / i-su-ḫu-ru-u-ni ina URU.ku-lu-man TAv ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú-nu / e-tar-bu kam-mu-su ù ki-i al-lik-u-ni / a-de-e TAv URU.ku-lu-man-a.a áš-kun-u-ni /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334077.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334077/..
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334077/.
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