SAA 19 186. Šubrian King Protecting Deserters (CTN 5 p. 100)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant [DN-...]. Good health to the kin[g, my lord]! | |
| o 22 | ARAD-ka md⸢x x x⸣ | |
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | LÚv.GAL—URU-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | (4) The village manager [of ...] with a couple of king's men helped [NN] and Hallusu, (two) servants of Nabû-kenu-[uṣu]r, [gove]rnor [o]f Tillê, to run away, and took them to Upumu. |
| o 55 | 02-šú LÚv.ERIM—MAN i-si-[šú mx x] | |
| o 66 | mḫa-lu-⸢su?⸣ [o] | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | (12) After I had asked around and investigated a bit, a tracker guided me (on their tracks). I arrested the person who had arranged his trip to Šubria and gave the tracker a messenger, saying: "Go and have a look, and I'll report to the king ac[cor]dingly; in negative case, I'll search for him here." | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | ||
| o 1919 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 20b.e. 20 | ||
| b.e. 2121 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | (r 3) The Šubrian (king) concealed him from the tracker, saying: "There is nobody in my presence. A servant of Nabû-kenu-uṣur passed by, and I am supporting the man’s work, (as) he said: 'You gave me a mule.'" | |
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | (r 12) T[he Šu]b[r]ian [refuses] to give away the village manager and those whom he helped to run away. The Šubrian is a frien[d of theirs]. | |
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| r 1717 | (r 17) I am s[ending him] (= the tracker) to [the king], my lord. The king, [my] lord, [may ask him]. I se[nt him] as soon as [he had come back]. | |
| r 1818 | ||
| r 1919 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 20r.e. 20 | ||
| r.e. 2121 |
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/P224383/.