SAA 05 213. A Case Concerning a Town (ABL 1407)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	IM ^m^dPA—ḫa-am-mat-u-a	(1) A letter (to) Nabû-hamatua: your servant Kuškayu. Good health to my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mku-uš-ka-a.a
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na EN-ía
o 44	de-e-ni	(4) Please present before Aššur-šarru-uṣur the case of the town in my hands which I told you about.
o 55	ša URU ŠU.2-a.a
o 66	ša a-qa-ba-kan-ni
o 77	ina pa-ni ^maš-šur—MAN—PAB
o 88	qi^*-bi
o 99	e-gír-ti liš-pu-ru	(9) Let him qu[ick]ly send a letter to the city overseer or to the prefect, telling him to remove everybody from the orchard.
Bottom
b.e. 10b.e. 10	⸢ki^* ár^?-ḫiš^*⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	a-na LÚ^v.šá—UGU—URU
r 22	šúm^*-mu a-na
r 33	LÚ^v.šak-nu
r 44	liš-pu-ru
r 55	ma-a LÚ
r 66	TA^v ŠÀ-bi
r 77	GIŠ.SAR lu-še-li
r 88	⸢la⸣-aḫ-ri-di	(r 8) I will keep vigil there.
r 99	ina ŠÀ-bi-šú

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/P334887/.