Position in chronology
SAA 15 113. The King of Elam Leaves Bit-Bunakki and Goes to Burati (CT 53 089+)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! The city of Der and the fort are well. (6) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "What is the news of the king of Elam?" He entered Bit-Bunakki on the 11th of Tammuz (IV), left it on the 13th, and went up to the mountain. [My] messenger [has written to me] as follows: (12) "A town called Burati, (one of) his forts outside the house of Daltâ, has turned hostile against him; he is going there, and will either pacify it or bring them down through battle. From there he will march to Ellipi against the s[on of…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / ARAD-ka mdUTU—EN—PAB / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / DI-mu a-na URU.de-e-ri / DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU / is—su-⸢ri⸣ LUGAL be-lí i-qab-bi / ma-a ša LUGAL KUR.NIM.MA.KI mi-i-nu / ṭè-en-šu UD 11-KÁM ša ITI.ŠU / a-na URU.É—bu-nak-ki e-ta-rab / UD 13-KÁM it-⸢tu⸣-ṣi a-na KUR-ú / e-te-li ⸢a⸣-ki an-ni-i LÚv.A—KIN-[e-a i-sap-ra] / ma-a ⸢URU⸣.bu-⸢ra⸣-a-te i-qab-bu-⸢ú⸣-[ni]-⸢šu*⸣ /…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313504.
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/P313504/..
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/P313504/.
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