SAA 05 131. An Attack on Urarṭian Border Forts (CT 53 454)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x x] ⸢URU⸣.bi-ra-ti ša KUR.⸢URI⸣-[a.a] | (1) [The Mannean] has atta[cked] the forts of the [king of] Urarṭu [which are situated on] his border, and let [his troops] occupy the forts. |
o 2'2' | ||
o 3'3' | ||
o 4'4' | (4) [The] Urarṭian [commander]-in-chief has gone [to he]lp with [his troops ...] | |
o 5'5' | ||
o 6'6' | ||
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | 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/P313867/.