SAA 05 105. The Kummean Leaders Comply with the King (ABL 0544)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL [be-lí-ía]	(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant [NN]. Good health t[o the king], my [lord]!
o 22	ARAD-ka [^mx x x x]
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN]-ia
o 44	ša LUGAL be-lí ina ŠÀ-bi un-qi	(4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote me in the sealed order, I and Issar-duri, the royal bodyguard, told them every word that was in it and let them hear the sealed order [which] came concerning them. They say:
o 55	ú-še-bal-a-ni a-na-ku
o 66	^m15—BÀD LÚ^v.qur-bu-tú
o 77	⸢di⸣-ib-bi am—mar il—li-bi-ni
o 88	[ni]-du-ba-áš-šú-nu un-qu
o 99	[ša] ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu tal-li-kan-ni
o 1010	[nu]-sa^*-šá-me-šú-nu i-da-bu-bu
o 1111	[ma]-⸢a^⸣ [šúm]-⸢ma⸣ LUGAL be-lí-i-ni be-⸢lí^ ša^*⸣ gab-bi	(11) "The king, our lord, is the lord of all; what can we say? The king, our lord, may take all the Kummeans who hold houses in (other) countries to wherever it is appropriate."
o 1212	[šu]-ú ma-a a-ni-nu mi-nu ni-⸢qa^*⸣-bi
o 1313	ma-a LÚ^v.ku-ma-a.a-e am—mar ina KUR.KUR-MEŠ
o 1414	É-MEŠ ú-kal-lu-u-ni
o 1515	LUGAL BE-ni É ṭa-bu-u-ni
o 1616	lu-bi-li ù LÚ^v.ku-ma-a.a-e	(16) But the Kummean scouts who went from Kumme for hire have not yet returned but are still there! The king, [my] lo[rd], should inquire and investigate: may[be] they are getting deported with those (other Kummeans).
o 1717	LÚ^v.da-ia-a-li ša TA^v URU.ku-me
o 1818	a-na na-gúr-tú il-li-ku-u-ni
o 1919	ú-di-ni la il-la-ku-[u-ni]
o 2020	am-ma-ka-ma šú-nu LUGAL be-[lí]
o 2121	liš-al lu-ṣi-ṣi i—⸢su⸣-[ri]
o 2222	⸢qa^-ni^⸣ am-mu-te
o 2323	ú-šá-ga-lu-šú-nu
o 2424	LUGAL be-lí ina URU.ku-me	(24) The king, my lord, should return them to Kumme. The king, my lord, knows that they are needed in Urarṭu, and that they are in Assyria for hire (only).
o 2525	lu-sa-ḫi-ir-šú-nu
Reverse
r 1r 1	LUGAL be-lí ú-da a-ki [o]
r 22	TA^v ŠÀ KUR.URI bat-qu-ni [o]
r 33	ina KUR—aš-šur a-na na-gúr-te šú-nu-ni
r 44	ina UGU GIŠ.ziq-pi ša LUGAL be-lí	(r 4) As to the saplings about which the king, my lord, wrote me, there is much snow and ice, so they cannot be picked up yet; they will pick them up and bring them to Dur-Šarruken at the beginning of the new moon of Adar (XII). I shall (then) come and give my report.
r 55	iš-pu-ra-ni ku-up-pu
r 66	qar-ḫu KALAG-an ú-di-ni
r 77	le-ma-tú-ḫu SAG.DU DINGIR GIBIL
r 88	ša ITI.ŠE ina URU.BÀD—^mLUGAL—GI.NA
r 99	⸢i⸣-ma-tú-ḫu ú-bu-lu
r 1010	⸢al^*⸣-la-ka ṭè-me ú-ta-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/P334369/.