SAA 15 053. Horses from Parsua (ABL 0165)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-remanni. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—rém-a-ni
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li-ía
o 44	LÚ^v.A—KIN TA^v KUR.par-su-a	(4) I met a messenger from Parsua (who told me): "The Zalipaeans have come forth; they have come forth with 100 ho[rs]es in their hands. Four men from among them ran away to the desert and came to Nikkur, (where) they said: 'We have brought horses from our country, but the Mannean has detained (them) inside his country.'"
o 55	ina GABA-ia i-tal-ka
o 66	ma-a KUR.za-li-pa-a.a	(6) I am now writing to the king, my lord: Let the king, my lord, send a bodyguard to listen to what the Zal[ipaeans] have to say. Perhaps they will bring [the horses] out.
o 77	i-tú-ṣu-u-ni
o 88	ma-a 01 ⸢me ANŠE⸣.[KUR].⸢RA⸣-MEŠ
o 99	ina ŠU.2-šú-nu ⸢i⸣-[tú]-ṣu-u-ni
o 1010	ma-a 04 LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ
o 1111	TA ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu
Bottom
b.e. 12b.e. 12	a-na mu^*-da-bi-⸢ri⸣	(12) I shall supply the [de]ficit of the king, [my] l[ord].
b.e. 1313	iḫ-ta-al-qu-⸢ni⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	i-tal-ku-u-ni
r 22	ina URU.ni-kur iq-ṭí-bi-ú
r 33	ma-a ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ TA^v KUR-i-ni
r 44	nu-se-ṣi-a ma-a KUR.man-na-a.a
r 55	ina qa-ab-si KUR-šú ik-ta-la
r 66	an-nu-rig a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
r 77	a-sa-ap-ra
r 88	LUGAL EN-li LÚ^v.qur-bu-te
r 99	liš-pu-ra ša pe-e
r 1010	ša KUR.za-⸢li⸣-[pa-a.a]
r 1111	liš-me i—su-[ri ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ]
r 1212	ú-še-ṣu-ni a-[na-ku]
Right
r.e. 13r.e. 13	⸢bat⸣-qu ša LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ia]
r.e. 1414	a-ka-ṣar

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334111/.