SAA 05 079. Capturing Runaways (ABL 0245)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-belu-da''in. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—EN—KALAG-in
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	LÚ^v.ša—É—ku-din	(4) The mule stable attendant whom I brought forth in search of the runaway people of the country has brought forth men from my neighbourhood and given them to me. All Halziatbareans have run away in great numbers and are (scattered) all over the countries. The mule stable attendant is desperate, saying: "It is an impasse."
o 55	ša ina UGU UN-MEŠ KUR ḫal-qu-te
o 66	ú-še-ṣa-an-ni
o 77	LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ TA^v ba-ta-ba-ti-ia
o 88	ú-se-ṣi-a i-ta-an-na
o 99	KUR.ḫal-zi—AD.BAR-a.a
o 1010	gab-bi-šú-nu ma-aʾ-da
o 1111	ḫal-qu ina ŠÀ-bi KUR-MEŠ
o 1212	gab-bu šu-nu
o 1313	LÚ^v.ša—É—ku-din
o 1414	da-li-iḫ ma-a KASKAL
o 1515	ka-ri-im an-nu-rig	(15) Now Nabû'a, the mule stable attendant who was appointed in charge of the Chaldeans, has brought me 380 persons; a number of them remain in Yasumu and in Bit-Zamani.
o 1616	^m^dPA-ú-a
Reverse
r 1r 1	LÚ^v.ša—É—ku-din
r 22	ša ina IGI LÚ^v.kal-da-a.a
r 33	pa-qi-du-ú-ni
r 44	03 me 80 ZI-MEŠ na-aṣ-ṣa
r 55	TA^v ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu ina ŠÀ KUR.ia-su^*-me
r 66	ina ŠÀ KUR.É—za-ma-ni
r 77	re-e-ḫu e-gír-tú	(r 7) Let them send him a letter (telling him) how he is to bring forth the Chaldea[ns] compl[etely], and how he is to assemble the runaway people of the country and bring them to me.
r 88	ina UGU-ḫi-šú liš-pur-ú-ni
r 99	ki-i ša KUR.kal-da-[a.a]
r 1010	ú-še-ṣa-an-ni ú-ga-⸢mar^*⸣-[u]-⸢ni⸣
r 1111	ki-i ša UN-MEŠ KUR ḫal-qu-te
r 1212	ú-pa-ḫar-an-ni
r 1313	ú-bal-an-ni

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/P334180/.