SAA 01 125. An Earthquake at Dur-Šarruken (ABL 0191)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN-ia⸣	(1) [To the king], my lord: your servant Kiṣir-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mki-ṣir—aš-šur
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	TA^v URU.mil-qi-a	(4) Upon my coming from Milqia to Dur-Šarruken, I was told that there had been an earthquake in Dur-Šarruken on the 9th of Adar (XII). Perhaps the king, my lord, now says: "Any damage within the city wall?"
o 55	a-na URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN
o 66	a-ta-al-ka
o 77	iq-ṭi-bu-u-ni
o 88	ma-a ri-i-bu
o 99	UD 09-KÁM ša ITI.ŠE
o 1010	ina URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN
o 1111	ir-tú-a-ba
o 1212	i—su-ri LUGAL
o 1313	be-lí i-qab-bi
o 1414	ma-a aʾ-u ŠUB-tú
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	[ina] ŠÀ BÀD <$x$>
b.e. 1616	[la^*] me-me-ni	(16) There is [no]ne. The temples, the ziggurat, the palace, the city wall and the buildings of the city are all well; the king, my lord, can be glad.
Reverse
r 1r 1	DI-mu a-na É—DINGIR-MEŠ^*-te
r 22	a-na si^!-qur^!-e-te
r 33	a-na É.GAL
r 44	a-na BÀD
r 55	a-na É-MEŠ ša URU gab-bi
r 66	ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL
r 77	EN-ia lu-u DÙG.GA
r 88	ma-aʾ-da ina ši-a-ri	(r 8) The king, my lord, will hear many things tomorrow and the day after, and say: "Why is it that you heard but did not write?" That is [why I am now writing to] the king, [my lord].
r 99	ina li-di-iš
r 1010	LUGAL be-lí i-šam-me
r 1111	[ma]-⸢a⸣ a-ta-a taš-me
r 1212	[la-a] taš-pu-ra
r 1313	[ina] ⸢UGU⸣ šu-u
Right
r.e. 14r.e. 14	[a-na] LUGAL [EN-ia]
r.e. 1515	[a-sap-ra]

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/P334136/.