SAA 05 045. Urarṭian Offensive against Mannea and Zikirtu (ABL 0215)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) The very best of health to the king, my lord! Your servant Hu-Tešub. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) As to the news of the Urarṭians concerning which the king, my lord, wrote me: "[Write me] quickly whatever you have heard" — | |
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | (6) (even) when I heard false ..., I wrote [to the kin]g, my lord! Now [...... on the ...th of] Marchesvan (VIII) | |
o 77 | ||
o 88 | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ITI⸣.APIN | |
o 99 | [x x x x x x x LÚv].⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ | |
rest (at least 10 lines) broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢URU?⸣.a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
r 2'2' | [x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ?⸣ ša URU.ḪAL*.⸢ṢU*⸣ | |
r 3'3' | (r 3) "If [things have gone badly] for him, he will be sta[ying] in Mannea; [i]f things have gone well for him, he will have attacked the Zikirteans." | |
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r 7'7' | ||
r 8'8' | (r 8) This is what I have heard. |
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/P334157/.