SAA 05 113. All Quiet on the Northern Front (ABL 0123)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL EN-ia

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur.

o 22

ARAD-ka mgab-buana-šur

o 33

ina UGU ṭè-e-me

(3) As to the orders that the king, my lord, gave me concerning the watch of the Urarṭian, ever since I entered Kurbail my messengers have been going back and forth to Nabû-le'i, Aššur-belu-uda''an and Aššur-reṣuwa.

o 44

ša LUGAL EN -ku-na-ni-ni

o 55

ina UGU ma-ṣar-ti

o 66

ša KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭa-a.a

o 77

TAv É ina URU.kur-ba-ìl

o 88

e-ru-bu-u-ni

o 99

v.DUMUšip-ra-ni-ia

o 1010

ina UGU mdPAZU

o 1111

ina UGU m-šurENKALAG-an

o 1212

ina UGU m-šurre-ṣu-u-a

o 1313

il-lu-ku il-la-ku-u-ni

o 1414

ši-ir*šu-me-e

(14) We have not [gotten] a whiff of anybody or anything. Everybody is doing h[is] work, there is no hostility at all.

o 1515

ša * ša* me*-me-ni

o 1616

la -[ṣi-in] ia-mu-ut-tum

o 1717

dul-lu-šu* [ep]-pa-áš

o 1818

gír-ru- me-me-ni la-a-šú

Reverse
r 1r 1

a-ki an-ni-e

(r 1) We keep hearing as follows: "The Urarṭian has not come out of Ṭurušpâ." Nevertheless, [w]e are ke[eping] the watch about which the k[ing, my lord,] ga[ve] me orders we are not negligent.

r 22

ni-sa-nam-me

r 33

ma-a KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭa-a.a

r 44

TA ŠÀ URU.ṭu-ru--pi-a

r 55

la ú-ṣi-a

r 66

ù [a]-ni-nu ma-ṣar-

r 77

ša LUGAL [EN] ṭè-e-mu

r 88

-[ku-na]-ni-ni

r 99

ni-na-[ṣar] la ni-ši-aṭ

r 1010

UD 16-[KAM] ša ITI.ŠU

(r 10) I arrived in Kurbail on the 16th day of Tammuz (IV), and am sending (this) letter to the king, my lord, on the 20th of Ab (V).

r 1111

ina URU.kur-ba-ìl aq-ṭí-rib

r 1212

UD 20-KAM ša ITI.NE

r 1313

e-gír- ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia

r 1414

a-sap-ra


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/P334071/.