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SAA 15 218. Chaldean Informer Captured in Larak; Priest Brings Leftovers (ABL 0763+)
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High confidence(1) [To the k]ing, my lord: [yo]ur [servant] Šarru-emuranni. [Good hea]lth to the king, my lord! The fort is [wel]l. (5) [...]hayu sent a Chaldean, an informer, to Larak. The [Lara]keans arrested him and took him [before] me. I asked him: "Where are you from?" He said: "A citizen of Babylon [sent me] to Larak." They said: "[He is] a crook, he lie[s]. We know him, (the) Nippurean(s) [...]." (r 2) Now then they are bringing him to the ki[ng, my lord]; let the ki[ng my lord] question him. (r 4) I asked him where the son of Ze[rî] is. He said: "He is encamped in the town Hiuru [of] the Puqudu [land]." (r 8) The priest of the city Uṣur-Adad is [bring]ing the '[lef]tovers' of (the sacrificial meal) before the gods (and) [is on his w]ay to the king, my lord.
Source: 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/P334540/
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Transliteration
[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía / [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ mLUGAL—IGI.LAL-a-ni / [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía / [DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na URU.bir-te / [LÚv].kal-da-a.a šu-u / ⸢li*⸣-šá-nu ina URU.la-rak-ka / [mx]+⸢x⸣-ḫa-a.a-ú is-sap-ra / [URU.la]-⸢rak⸣-ka-a.a i-ṣab-tu-ni-šú / [ina IGI]-⸢ia⸣ na-ṣu-ni-šu / ⸢a⸣-[sa-ʾa]-al-šú muk ša a-a-ká / at-ta ma-a DUMU*—KÁ.DINGIR.⸢RA.KI*⸣ / a-na o* URU.la*-rak-⸢ka*⸣ [is-sap-ra-ni] / ma-a…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334540.
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/P334540/..
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/P334540/.
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