SAA 15 098. Ludu and Elamite Troops; Concluding a Treaty (ABL 1008)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL EN-ia]	(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Mannu-ki-Ninua]. Good health [to the king, my lord]! The la[nd of the king my lord] is well. The Medes [around us are peaceful], and we [are doing our] w[ork]. The king, [my] lord, [can be] glad.
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^mman-nu—ki-i—URU.NINA]
o 33	lu DI-mu [a-na LUGAL EN-a]
o 44	DI-mu a-na ⸢KUR⸣ [ša LUGAL EN-a]
o 55	LÚ.ma-ta-a.a [ša bat-te-bat-te-e-ni né-e-ḫu]
o 66	ù a-né-e-nu ⸢dul⸣-[li-in-ni né-pa-áš]
o 77	ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL EN-[ia lu DÙG.GA ṭè-mu]
o 88	ša KUR.NIM.MA-a.a ⸢ina^?⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(8) [News] of the Elamite (king): [he is] i[n ...].
o 99	ina UGU ^mlu-du-ú [x x x x x x]	(9) Concerning Ludû [......]
o 1010	LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ ša KUR.e-lam-a.a ša [x x x]	(10) the troops of the Elamite who [...]
o 1111	⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-šú ma-a pa-ni-u-te ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x]	(11) [...] him; "the previous ones who [......]
o 1212	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú-nu ba ⸢x⸣ [x x] ⸢di⸣ [x x x]	(12) [...] them [......]
o 1313	[x x x x]-MEŠ^*-šú-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x šu⸣ [x x x]	(13) their [...]s [......]
o 1414	[x x ^máš-pa]—⸢ba⸣-ri ⸢KUR.É⸣—LÚ^v.⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(14) [... Ašpa-b]ari of Bit-[......]
o 1515	[x x x x]-a-te^* ša KUR.e-lam-a.a [x x]	(15) [the ...]s of the Elamite [......]
o 1616	[x x x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x]	(15) [the ...]s of the Elamite [......]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[LÚ^v.GAL—URU-MEŠ]-šú-nu i-du-u-ku [x x x]	(r 1) [...] killed their [village managers. Later they became afra]id and ascended to the mountain. I sent [Nabû]-taqqinanni to them, so they came down, concluded a treaty with him, entered it, and everybody is (now) living in his town.
r 2'2'	[ip-ta-al]-ḫu a-na KUR-ú e-te-⸢li⸣-[u]
r 3'3'	[^m^dPA]—⸢LAL⸣-an-ni ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu a-sa-ap-ra
r 4'4'	⸢it⸣-tar-du-u-ni a-de-e is-se-e-šú
r 5'5'	i-sa-ak-nu e-tar-bu ia-mut-tú
r 6'6'	ina ŠÀ URU-šú kam-mu-su 02 URU.ŠE-MEŠ	(r 6) Two villages from their outskirts, the avengers who killed the village managers, did not come down. Their brothers told Nabû-taqqinanni: "We shall bring them down and take them before t[he governor; ......] them." As soon as they have co[me down, I shall send them to] the king, [my] lord.
r 7'7'	TA^v qa-an-ni-šú-nu LÚ^v.EN—MÚD-MEŠ ša a-na
r 8'8'	LÚ^v.GAL—URU-MEŠ-ni i-du-ku-u-ni
r 9'9'	la ú-ri-du-u-ni ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú-nu ⸢a⸣-[na]
r 10'10'	[^m]^dPA—LAL-in-an-ni iq-ṭí-bi-ú ⸢ma⸣-[a]
r 11'11'	nu-še-ra-da-šú-nu ina pa-ni ⸢LÚ^v^*⸣.[EN.NAM x x]
r 12'12'	nu-bal-la-šú-nu ma-a a-[x x x x]
r 13'13'	⸢x-šú⸣-nu ki-ma it-⸢tu⸣-[ri-du-ni]
r 14'14'	[ina UGU] ⸢LUGAL^* EN⸣-[a ú-še-ba-la-šú-nu]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P334673/.