SAA 05 078. Imposing the King’s Treaty (ABL 0246)[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-ía
o 44	URU LÚ^v.uš-ḫa-a.a	(4) The Ušhaeans and Qudaeans about whom the king, my lord, wrote me, have submitted to the king my lord's command; (these) towns which were not submissive in the days of Šamaš-ila'i, the royal bodyguard has now assembl[ed] and brought over to me.
o 55	URU LÚ^v.qu-da-a.a
o 66	ša LUGAL EN-lí ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu
o 77	iš-pur-an-ni
o 88	ina UGU pe-e ša LUGAL EN-ía
o 99	iḫ-ta-an-šú
o 1010	URU-MEŠ-ni ša UD-MEŠ
o 1111	ša ^m^dUTU—DINGIR-a.a
o 1212	la ḫa-an-šu-ni
o 1313	ú-ma-a an-nu-rig
o 1414	LÚ^v.qur-bu-te up-ta-ḫi-⸢ir⸣
o 1515	ina UGU-ḫi-ia na-ṣa^!
o 1616	ú-sa-li-im-šú-nu	(16) I have made peace with them. Those obliged to provide labour have provided it, and those obliged to provide king's men have provided them.
Bottom
b.e. 17b.e. 17	ša il-ka-šú-ni
Reverse
r 1r 1	il-ku-šu i-ti-[din]
r 22	ša LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ—MAN-šu-[ni]
r 33	LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ—MAN i-ti-[din]
r 44	KUR-ú gab-bu ⸢a⸣-[de-e]	(r 4) The whole mountain (area) has observed the king's tr[eaty]; the king, my lord, ca[n be glad].
r 55	LUGAL i-ta-ṣar [o]
r 66	ŠÀ-bu LUGAL EN-ía ⸢lu⸣ [DÙG.GA]
r 77	LÚ^v.e-mu-qi [šu]-⸢nu⸣	(r 7) Shall I relea[se] the troops at my disposal, or should they (continue to) keep the watch?
r 88	ša ina IGI-ia lu-ra-[mi]-⸢šú⸣-nu
r 99	ú-la-a ma-⸢ṣar⸣-tú [o]
r 1010	li-ṣu-ur [o^*]
r 1111	URU.mu-ma-a.a [o]	(r 11) The Mumaeans are unsubmissive; shall I go and negotiate with them about the king's command? If not, let the king, my lord, tell me what his orders are.
r 1212	i-ba-ši la ḫa-an-šú-ti
r 1313	la-li-ki ina UGU pe-e LUGAL
r 1414	is-si-šú-nu la-da-bu-ub
r 1515	ú-la-a mi-nu ša LUGAL
Right
r.e. 16r.e. 16	i-qab-bu-u-ni
r.e. 1717	liq-bi

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/P334181/.