SAA 01 031. More on the Cimmerian Defeat (ABL 0197)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-ahhe-riba. Good health to the king, my lord! Assyria is well, the temples are well, all the king's forts are well. The king, my lord, can be glad indeed.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^d30—PAB-MEŠ—SU
o 33	lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 44	šul-mu a-na KUR—aš-šur.KI
o 55	šul-mu a-na É.KUR-MEŠ-te
o 66	šul-mu a-na URU.bi-rat ša LUGAL gab-bu
o 77	ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš lu DÙG.GA
o 88	KUR.uk-ka-a.a ina UGU-ḫi-ia is-sa-par	(8) The Ukkaean has sent me (this message): "The troops of the Urarṭian king have been utterly defeated on his expedition against the Cimmerians; eleven of his governors have been eliminated [with] their troops; his commander-in-chief and two of his governors [have been taken prisoners]. He (himself) came to take [the road to ......] came [...... the pr]efects of his country [......] stationed [in ......]."
o 99	ma-a LUGAL KUR.URI-a.a a-na KUR.ga-mir
o 1010	bé-et il-lik-ú-ni ma-a LÚ^v.e-mu-qi-šú
o 1111	a-na ma-la de-e-ka ma-a 11^* LÚ^v.EN.NAM-MEŠ-šú
o 1212	[TA^v] LÚ^v.e-mu-qi-šú-nu še-e-lu-u
o 1313	[LÚ^v.tur]-⸢ta⸣-nu-šú 02 LÚ^v.EN.NAM-MEŠ-te
o 1414	[ṣa-ab-tu ma]-⸢a^*⸣ it-tal-ka
o 1515	[KASKAL ša KUR.man^?-na^?-a].⸢a⸣ iṣ-ṣa-ba-at
o 1616	[ma-a x x x x x]-a.a il-lik-an-ni
o 1717	[x x x x LÚ^v.GAR]-nu-te ša KUR-šú
o 1818	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ iš-šak-nu-u-ni
o 1919	[x x x an-ni]-ú ṭè-e-mu	(19) [Thi]s was the report of the Ukkaean. Aššur-reṣuwa has written to me thus:
o 2020	ša [KUR].⸢uk⸣-ka-a.a
o 2121	^maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a i-sa-ap-ra
o 2222	ma-a ṭè-e-mu ša KUR.URI-a.a	(22) "The previous report which I sent about the Urarṭians was that they had suffered a terrible defeat. Now his country is quiet again and each of his magnates has gone to his province. Kaqqadanu, his commander-in-chief, has been taken prisoner; the Urarṭian king is in the province of Wazaun."
o 2323	ma pa-ni-ú ša áš-pur-an-ni
o 2424	ma-a šu-tú-u-ma šu-ú
o 2525	ma-a de-ek-tú ina ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu
Bottom
b.e. 26b.e. 26	ma-aʾ-da de-e-ka-at
b.e. 2727	ma-a ú-ma-a KUR-su né-ḫa-at
b.e. 2828	ma-a LÚ^v.GAL-MEŠ-šú ia-mu-tú
b.e. 2929	ina ŠÀ-bi KUR-šú it-ta-lak
Reverse
r 1r 1	ma-a ^mSAG.DU-a-nu LÚ^v.tur-ta-nu-šú
r 22	ṣa-bi-it ma-a LUGAL KUR.URI-a.a
r 33	ina ŠÀ KUR.ú-a-za-un šu-ú
r 44	an-ni-ú ṭè-e-mu ša ^maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a	(r 4) This was the report of Aššur-reṣuwa. Nabû-le'i the governor of Birate has written to me:
r 55	^m^dPA—ZU LÚ^v.EN.NAM ša URU.ḪAL.ṢU
r 66	ina UGU-ḫi-ia is-sa-ap-ra
r 77	ma-a ina UGU LÚ^v.EN.NUN URU.bi-ra-a-te	(r 7) "I have written to the guards of the forts along the border concerning the news of the Urarṭian king and they (tell me this): 'His troops have been utterly defeated on his expedition against the Cimmerians. Three of his magnates along with their troops have been killed; he himself has escaped and entered his country, but his army has not yet arrived (back).'"
r 88	ša ina UGU ta-ḫu-u-me ina UGU ṭè-e-mu
r 99	ša LUGAL KUR.URI-a.a a-sa-ap-ra
r 1010	ma-a KUR.PAB-ir bé-et il-lik-u-ni
r 1111	ma-a LÚ^v.e-mu-qe-e-šú a-na ma-la de-e-ka
r 1212	ma-a 03 LÚ^v.GAL-MEŠ-šú a-du LÚ^v.e-mu-qi-šú-nu
r 1313	de-e-ku ma-a šu-u-tú iḫ-tal-qa
r 1414	a-na KUR-šú e-tar-ba ma-a ma-dak-tú-šú
r 1515	ú-di-i-ni la ta-qa-ri-ba
r 1616	an-ni-ú ṭè-e-mu ša ^m^dPA—ZU	(r 16) This was the report of Nabû-le'i. The (king) of Muṣaṣir and his brother and son have gone to greet the Urarṭian king, and the messenger of the (king) of Hubuškia has also gone to greet him.
r 1717	URU.mu-ṣa-ṣir-a.a ŠEŠ-šú
r 1818	DUMU-šú a-na šul-me
r 1919	ina UGU LUGAL KUR.URI-a.a it-tal-ku
r 2020	LÚ^v.A—šip-ri ša KUR.ḫu-bu-uš-ka-a.a
r 2121	a-na šul-me ina UGU-ḫi-šú-ma
r 2222	it-ta-la-ak
r 2323	LÚ^v.EN.NUN URU.bi-rat gab-bu	(r 23) All the guards of the forts along the border have sent me similar reports.
r 2424	ša ina UGU ta-ḫu-me ṭè-e-mu
r 2525	a-ki an-ni-im-ma i-sa-par-u-ni
r 2626	e-gir-tú ša ^m^dPA—ZU	(r 26) They have brought me from Tabal a letter from Nabû-le'i, the major-domo of Ahat-abiša. I am herewith forwarding it to the king, my lord.
r 2727	LÚ.GAL—É ša MÍ.NIN—AD-šá
r 2828	TA^v KUR.ta-bal na-ṣu-u-ni
r 2929	ina UGU LUGAL EN-ía us-se-bi-la

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334142/.