SAA 19 092. Speaking with Witnesses in Apinunu (CTN 5 p. 118)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN-ia⸣	(1) [To the king, m]y [lo]rd: your servant Aššur-da''inanni. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-⸢ka ^m⸣aš-šur—KALAG-an-ni
o 33	lu-u ⸢DI-mu⸣ a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	ša LUGAL EN ina UGU URU.bir-te	(4) (As regards) what the king, my lord, ordered me concerning the fort of Erimziqu, there is much snow, (so) I am (only) going up as far as Apinunu. I shall (then) send word that the elders should come (so) I (can) speak with them.
o 55	ša URU.erim-zi-qi ṭé-mu
o 66	iš-kun-an-ni ku-pu-u
o 77	da-aʾ-na e-li a-du
o 88	URU.a-pi-nu-nu a-šap-pa-⸢ra⸣
o 99	LÚ^v.bar-šá-mu-tu i-lak-u-ni
o 1010	i-si-šú-nu a-da-bu-bu
o 1111	URU.erim-zi-qa-a-a iḫ-ti-⸢ṭi^?⸣-[u]	(11) The Erimziqaeans committed (a crime) and [B]ir-Bari[a]š [the Apin]unean ...[...]
o 1212	[^m]⸢bir⸣—^dba-ri-⸢áš⸣
o 1313	[URU.a-pi]-⸢nu⸣-na-a.a ú-⸢x⸣+[x x]
o 1414	[x x x x] un ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x]+⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x]
r 2'2'	[x x]+⸢x⸣ u a ⸢x⸣ [x x] ⸢x a x⸣	(r 2) [...] ... [...] ...
r 3'3'	01-⸢en⸣ ša [a]-⸢bu-ku⸣-u-ni	(r 3) I am [now] sending to the king, my lord, one [...] whom I have ab[du]cted.
r 4'4'	ina ⸢UGU LUGAL EN-ia a-sap⸣-ra
	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P224420/.