SAA 05 078. Imposing the King’s Treaty (ABL 0246)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-belu-da''in. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | (4) The Ušhaeans and Qudaeans about whom the king, my lord, wrote me, have submitted to the king my lord's command; (these) towns which were not submissive in the days of Šamaš-ila'i, the royal bodyguard has now assembl[ed] and brought over to me. | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | (16) I have made peace with them. Those obliged to provide labour have provided it, and those obliged to provide king's men have provided them. | |
Bottom | ||
b.e. 17b.e. 17 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | (r 4) The whole mountain (area) has observed the king's tr[eaty]; the king, my lord, ca[n be glad]. | |
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | (r 7) Shall I relea[se] the troops at my disposal, or should they (continue to) keep the watch? | |
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ú-la-a ma-⸢ṣar⸣-tú [o] | |
r 1010 | li-ṣu-ur [o*] | |
r 1111 | URU.mu-ma-a.a [o] | (r 11) The Mumaeans are unsubmissive; shall I go and negotiate with them about the king's command? If not, let the king, my lord, tell me what his orders are. |
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | ||
r 1414 | ||
r 1515 | ||
Right | ||
r.e. 16r.e. 16 | ||
r.e. 1717 |
Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334181/.