SAA 05 169. King of Zikirtu as Horse Trader (ABL 0205)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-iqiša. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) The emissaries of the Zikirtean (king) are now coming; the messengers of the Urarṭian who had gone to the [Zi]kirtean are coming with them as captives. | |
o 44 | LÚv.zi-gír-ta-a.a DU-u-ni | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | (8) I have had money brought up and deposited in the stronghold, (relying) on the word of the Zikirtean, who said: "I shall sell you the horses in Paššate." | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | a-sa-kan : ma-a : ana : KUR.pa-áš-šá-te | |
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | (13) Now let it be impressed upon the emissaries, as the emissaries are trying hard to back out of their word, claiming: "We have not heard about (such a promise) by our lord." | |
o 1414 | ||
o 1515 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ma-a TAv UGU : ša : LÚv.EN-ni* | |
r 44 | (r 4) The king should ask the second emissary; he knows that he gave the order to the commander-in-chief. | |
r 55 | ||
r 66 | DU ZU : a-ki a-na LÚv.tur-tan | |
r 77 | ||
rest uninscribed |
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/P334149/.