SAA 05 107. Kill the Assyrian Delegate! (CT 53 098)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[LÚ^v.KÚR-MEŠ ša] ⸢URU.ku⸣-um-me TA^v ŠÀ-bi-⸢ku⸣-[nu]	(1) "['Drive the enemies of] Kumme from yo[ur] midst!'
o 2'2'	[še-ṣi-a ú]-ma-a an-nu-rig URU.ku-um-⸢mu⸣	(2) "Now then [the whole] city of Kumm[u] has turned [ag]ainst Ariye; they [...] speak of killing [the royal delegate]."
o 3'3'	[gab-bi-šu ina] UGU ^ma-ri-e i-sa-ak-nu
o 4'4'	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina UGU du-a-ki
o 5'5'	[ša LÚ^v.qe-pi] ⸢i⸣-da-bu-bu
Bottom
b.e. 6'b.e. 6'	[ina ŠÀ UD-me] ⸢ša e⸣-gír-tú	(6) [The day th]at the letter [of Aššur-reṣ]uwa came [to me] with the messenger [of ...]
b.e. 7'7'	[ša ^maš-šur—re]-⸢ṣu⸣-u-a TA^v LÚ^v.A—KIN
Reverse
r 1r 1	[ša x x x ina UGU-ḫi-ia] ⸢il⸣-lik-u-ni-ni
r 22	[x x x x x x x x x]-ka
r 1313	[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ib-šú-nu
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P313513/.