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مراقبة ملك أورارتو لوح مسماري مكتشف في كالح الاشورية عاصمة الإمبراطورية الآشورية شمال العراق و تسجل انها إحدى المهام الرئيسية الاشوريون كما يتضح من هذه الرسالة من غابو آنا آشور إلى الملك سرجون
كان ذلك الاتصال حيويًا لتسيير الإمبراطورية الآشورية تتعامل رسائل سرجون المكتشفة في العراق مع الشؤون الخارجية و ليس فقط داخل الإمبراطورية الآشورية تتعامل مع الشرق الأوسط بأكمله الرسائل المتعلقة بالدول المجاورة عادة ما تكون تقارير استخباراتية سرية تخبر الملك سرجون عن تحركات القوات وأماكن وجود أعدائه السياسيين الرئيسيين محفوظة في المتحف البريطاني برقم 574 = SAA 5 113 أورارتو مملكة تقع في منطقة الهضبة الأرمينية جنوب شرق البحر الأسود وإلى الجنوب الغربي من بحر قزوين
The surveillance of the king of Urartu was one the main tasks of the Assyrian intelligence service, as illustrated by this letter from Gabbu-ana-Aššur to his king Sargon. British Museum, K 574 = SAA 5 113; photo by Greta Van Buylaere
communication between centre and provinces worked quickly and efficiently. Moreover, Sargon was almost constantly on the move, taking a very active role in military campaigns. Like the so-called Nimrud Letters, the royal correspondences of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) and Sargon unearthed in Kalhu, Sargon's Nineveh letters deal with affairs not only inside the Assyrian Empire but in the entire Middle East. The letters concerning the neighbouring states are typically intelligence reports, informing Sargon about troop movements and the whereabouts of his key political enemies, especially Rusa of Urartu and Marduk-apla-iddina (Merodach-Baladan II) his rival for the Babylonian throne
The Nineveh material contains letters sent by Sargon himself, surviving either in the form of archival copies or perhaps drafts, by the crown prince Sennacherib and the highest administrative and military officials in the Assyrian Empire. The best attested correspondents are the governors serving in provinces across the empire; sometimes we even have letter dossiers from successive governors of a given province. However, the geographical distribution of the known Sargon letters is very uneven and not all regions of the empire are represented: there is, for example, a considerable gap in regard to materials from the western provinces whence only a very few letters survive. The bulk of these letters may still be awaiting their discovery.
Early on in his reign, Sargon II decided to move his capital from Kalhu (modern Nimrud) to Dur-Šarruken (modern Khorsabad) and the planning and construction of the new centre for the empire is one of the main themes of the letters. Otherwise, the letters tend to deal with similar administrative, political and military topics as the Nimrud Letters. The royal correspondence of the 8th century BC is therefore markedly different from the 7th century letters of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, the majority of which concerns cultic and scholarly topics Mesopotamia iraq Assyrian civilization
كان ذلك الاتصال حيويًا لتسيير الإمبراطورية الآشورية تتعامل رسائل سرجون المكتشفة في العراق مع الشؤون الخارجية و ليس فقط داخل الإمبراطورية الآشورية تتعامل مع الشرق الأوسط بأكمله الرسائل المتعلقة بالدول المجاورة عادة ما تكون تقارير استخباراتية سرية تخبر الملك سرجون عن تحركات القوات وأماكن وجود أعدائه السياسيين الرئيسيين محفوظة في المتحف البريطاني برقم 574 = SAA 5 113 أورارتو مملكة تقع في منطقة الهضبة الأرمينية جنوب شرق البحر الأسود وإلى الجنوب الغربي من بحر قزوين
The surveillance of the king of Urartu was one the main tasks of the Assyrian intelligence service, as illustrated by this letter from Gabbu-ana-Aššur to his king Sargon. British Museum, K 574 = SAA 5 113; photo by Greta Van Buylaere
communication between centre and provinces worked quickly and efficiently. Moreover, Sargon was almost constantly on the move, taking a very active role in military campaigns. Like the so-called Nimrud Letters, the royal correspondences of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) and Sargon unearthed in Kalhu, Sargon's Nineveh letters deal with affairs not only inside the Assyrian Empire but in the entire Middle East. The letters concerning the neighbouring states are typically intelligence reports, informing Sargon about troop movements and the whereabouts of his key political enemies, especially Rusa of Urartu and Marduk-apla-iddina (Merodach-Baladan II) his rival for the Babylonian throne
The Nineveh material contains letters sent by Sargon himself, surviving either in the form of archival copies or perhaps drafts, by the crown prince Sennacherib and the highest administrative and military officials in the Assyrian Empire. The best attested correspondents are the governors serving in provinces across the empire; sometimes we even have letter dossiers from successive governors of a given province. However, the geographical distribution of the known Sargon letters is very uneven and not all regions of the empire are represented: there is, for example, a considerable gap in regard to materials from the western provinces whence only a very few letters survive. The bulk of these letters may still be awaiting their discovery.
Early on in his reign, Sargon II decided to move his capital from Kalhu (modern Nimrud) to Dur-Šarruken (modern Khorsabad) and the planning and construction of the new centre for the empire is one of the main themes of the letters. Otherwise, the letters tend to deal with similar administrative, political and military topics as the Nimrud Letters. The royal correspondence of the 8th century BC is therefore markedly different from the 7th century letters of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, the majority of which concerns cultic and scholarly topics Mesopotamia iraq Assyrian civilization