SAA 01 250. Trouble in Tabal (ABL 1203)[via saao/saa01]
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beginning (a few lines only) broken away | ||
1'1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
2'2' | (2) "[......] I shall march against you." [I] told him: "[Th]is [land] is not mine, it belongs to the mighty king; I will not give it to you." | |
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7'7' | (7) Now, we have clashed together on the king's border; may the gods of the king act best as they can. Let him dispatch me troops [...... | |
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11'11' | [x x x]+x ⸢x x x-ru*⸣ | |
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b.e. 12'b.e. 12' | [x x x x x x] | |
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning (1-2 lines) lost | |
r 1'1' | (r 1) [......] released [the ...] of the city of Šibirtu and commanded: "Bring the property of Huhhi and a washbasin set in gold!" These were given to them. | |
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r 6'6' | (r 6) The soldiers previously on duty plundered [the country of ...]riuni; [(should) I re]turn, by what means [...] the city of Tabal? Accordingly, when [......], I will [...] food [...... | |
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r 9'9' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-lak id—da-a-te ⸢ki-i⸣ | |
r 10'10' | [x x x x]-⸢ú⸣-ni a-kul-lu-ú [o] | |
r 11'11' | [x x x x]-šu-nu la-⸢áš*⸣-[x x] | |
r 12'12' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
rest broken away |
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/P334791/.