Position in chronology
SAA 15 199. A Ruse for Capturing the City Darati (ABL 0222)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) Sapiku, Aqaba, La-baši, Zaqiru, and Bel-le'i, a total of five men from Darati, have spoken thus: (3) "We bear the responsibility for Darati. We shall bring Sa'eru and whatever men are loyal to him into the city by means of tunnels, capture Darati and give it to Marduk-šarru-uṣur. Let them work on the houses. At a house which lends itself to the work we will cut a tunnel inside, and we shall bring in the men through it. They should work on (the houses of) Eriba and Sîn-duru-uṣur. (r 2) "After one of them has by studied words entered Darati, we shall bring the men in through the tunnels and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
msa-pi-ku ma-qa-ba mla—ba-ši / mza-qi-ru mEN—ZU PAB 05 / LÚv.da-ra-ta-a.a ma-a a-ni-ni / pu*-tuḫ URU.da-ra-a-te* na-ṣa-ni / ma-a ina ŠÀ-bi ni-ik-sa-a-ni / msa-a-e-ru a-⸢di*⸣ LÚv.ERIM-MEŠ / ma-la ina UGU-ḫi-šú am-ru-u-ni / ina ŠÀ*-bi URU nu-še-rab / ma-a URU.da-ra-a-ti ni-ṣab-bat / a-na mdAMAR.UTU—MAN—PAB ni-dan / ma-a dul-lu ina UGU É-MEŠ-ni / le-pu-šú ma-a ina UGU É / ša dul-lu e-pa-lu-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 P334163.
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/P334163/..
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/P334163/.
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