SAA 19 071. Chief Cupbearer Defeated by Rusa (CTN 5 p. 119)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Ašš[ur-le'i]. | |
| o 22 | ||
| ___________________ | ||
| o 33 | (3) When the chief cupbearer entered with the army, Rusa came and defeated him. Not one of them got out (alive). | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | (10) He is marching on and setting on the forts of the chief cupbearer, and is going to do battle. | |
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | (r 2) May the king do as he deems best. | |
| r 33 | ||
| 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/P224422/.