SAA 05 113. All Quiet on the Northern Front (ABL 0123)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (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 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | (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 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (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 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | (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 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 |
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/.