SAA 05 217. Preparing for War in Mannea (ABL 0342)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-issiya. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) I se[n]t two cavalry cohort commanders to Sanha and Ulušia to the king's subjects who are there. They went and saw them: the equipment (they had received) there and the barley rations specified in their tablet were there. | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | (12) They warned them, and their guard is very strong. The king, my lord, can be glad. | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | (16) The king, my lord, knows that Kubaba-ila'i masters the language. I sent him to Tikriš, and he gave us this detailed report. We are herewith sending it to the king, my lord. | |
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | (r 6) All the time I have been encamped on the Mannean border, the son of the widow has been encamped opposite me on his side of the border. | |
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | (r 11) The very day that Nergal-belu-uṣur came here ordering me to depart and I entered the Mannean territory, I sent my 'third man' to him, saying: "Set out!" He said he was sick. I said: "Let your son come!" He said: "He is sick too; I shall send my brother with my troops." | |
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 17r.e. 17 | ||
| r.e. 1818 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 | (e. 1) I sent the 'third man,' but he (i.e., this brother) has not yet showed up. The rest of the troops of the city lords are with me. | |
| e. 22 | ||
| e. 33 | ||
| e. 44 |
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/P334222/.