SAA 05 045. Urarṭian Offensive against Mannea and Zikirtu (ABL 0215)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL EN-ía a—dan-niš a—dan-niš

(1) The very best of health to the king, my lord! Your servant Hu-Tešub.

o 22

lu-u DI-mu ARAD-ka mḫu—te-šub

o 33

ina UGU ṭè-e-me ša KUR.URI-a.a

(3) As to the news of the Urarṭians concerning which the king, my lord, wrote me: "[Write me] quickly whatever you have heard" —

o 44

⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni ma-a

o 55

[mi]-i-nu ša taš-mu-u-ni ár-ḫiš

o 66

[šup-ra] ki-i ⸢x⸣ sur-rat áš-mu-u-ni

(6) (even) when I heard false ..., I wrote [to the kin]g, my lord! Now [...... on the ...th of] Marchesvan (VIII)

o 77

[a-na] ⸢LUGAL* EN*-ía* a*⸣-sa*-par ú-ma-a

o 88

[x x x x x x x] ⸢ITI⸣.APIN

o 99

[x x x x x x x LÚv].⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ

(9) [...... the magn]ates

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(Break)

Reverse
rr beginning broken away

r 1'1'

[x x x x x x] ⸢URU?⸣.a-⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(r 1) [......the to]wn A[...]

r 2'2'

[x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ?⸣ ša URU.ḪAL*.⸢ṢU*⸣

(r 2) [...... have ...]ed the [...]s of the fort.

r 3'3'

[x x x x]-⸢ú⸣ ma-a šúm-ma o*

(r 3) "If [things have gone badly] for him, he will be sta[ying] in Mannea; [i]f things have gone well for him, he will have attacked the Zikirteans."

r 4'4'

[in-ta-ra-ṣa]-áš-šú ina KUR.man-na-a.a iz-za-⸢az⸣

r 5'5'

[ma-a] ⸢šúm*⸣-mu i-ta-at-ra-ṣa-áš-šú

r 6'6'

ina ⸢UGU⸣ KUR.zi-kir-ta-a.a

r 7'7'

iz-zu-qu-pu

r 8'8'

ki-i an-ni-e a-se-me

(r 8) This is what I have heard.

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/P334157/.