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SAA 19 157. Urarṭu After the Cimmerian Rout (CTN 5 p. 125; SAA 01 032)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord: yo]ur [servant Sin-ahhe-riba. Good health to the king, m]y lord! Assyria [is well], the temples [are well], all the [forts o]f the king [are well; the king, my lord], can be glad indeed. (7) [......] of the Itu'ean [......] who [......] from the city of Ištahup has now been brought to me from [...]idratta. I inquired him [about the Urar]ṭians and he told me: "The Urarṭian [and his magnates were defeated] on their expedition [against] the Cimmerians, and they are very much afraid of the king, my lord. They tremble and keep silent like women, and nobody [...] the…
Source: Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/X190157/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN-ia ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ md[30—PAB-MEŠ—SU] / [lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL] be-lí-⸢ia⸣ / [šul-mu a-na KUR]—aš-šur.KI / [šul-mu a-na] ⸢É⸣.KUR-MEŠ-te / [šul-mu a-na URU.bi-rat] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL gab-bu / [ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia a—dan]-niš lu-u DÙG.GA / [x x x x x x] ⸢ša?⸣ LÚ.i-tú-u-a.a / [x x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ TAv ŠÀ-bi URU.iš-ta-ḫup* / [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ú-ni ú*-ma-a TAv ŠÀ-bi / [URU.x x x]+⸢x⸣-id-rat-ta ina UGU-ḫi-ia…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text X190157.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/X190157/..
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/X190157/.
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