SAA 05 044. Troops in Hubuškia (CT 53 054)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ía a—dan-niš] ⸢a⸣—dan-niš	(1) The very [best of health] t[o the king, my lord! Your servant Hu]-Tešub.
o 22	lu-[u DI-mu ARAD-ka ^mḫu]—te-šub
o 33	na^*-[gi-u x x x x x x]+⸢x i⸣-qab-bu-niš-šú	(3) A di[strict of Urarṭu] called [...]
		(Break)
o 44	[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
o 55	[x x x x x x x x x] ⸢bi⸣
o 66	[x x x x x x x x x]-šu
o 77	[x x x x x x x LÚ^v].⸢NAM⸣-MEŠ	(7) [...... gove]rnors
o 88	[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
o 99	[x x x x x x x x x]-a
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[LÚ^v.šá]—⸢pet^*⸣-ḫal ⸢LUGAL^?⸣ [x x x x x]	(r 1) [The cava]lry of the ki[ng of ...]
r 2'2'	[ina^*] UGU LÚ^v.NIGIR—É.GAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(r 2) [have ...ed ag]ainst the palace herald.
r 3'3'	ina UGU e-mu-qi ša ina KUR.ḫu-ub-uš-ki-a	(r 3) On account of the troops which are in Hubuškia, outside (the border), I am sending this letter of mine to ....
r 4'4'	ina qa-an-ni šu-nu-ni ina UGU-ḫi e-gir-ti
r 5'5'	an-ni-tú a-na ⸢ku^?⸣-in^-⸢ti^⸣ a-sa-par
	rest uninscribed

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/P313469/.