SAA 01 250. Trouble in Tabal (ABL 1203)


Obverse
	beginning (a few lines only) broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
1'1'	[x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x]
2'2'	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ al-la-ka ina UGU-ḫi-ka	(2) "[......] I shall march against you." [I] told him: "[Th]is [land] is not mine, it belongs to the mighty king; I will not give it to you."
3'3'	[ana-ku] aq-ṭi-ba-áš-šu mu-uk
4'4'	[KUR an]-ni-ú la-a ia-ú šu-ú
5'5'	⸢mu-uk⸣ šá LUGAL dan-ni šu-ú
6'6'	mu-uk la ad-da-nak-ka ú-ma-a
7'7'	ina UGU ta-ḫu-mi šá LUGAL is-sa-ḫe-iš	(7) Now, we have clashed together on the king's border; may the gods of the king act best as they can. Let him dispatch me troops [......
8'8'	maḫ-ṣa-a-ni ki-i šá DINGIR-MEŠ-ni ša LUGAL
9'9'	i-la-ʾu-ú-ni le-pu-šu
10'10'	LÚ.e-muq-qi lu-še-bi-la
11'11'	[x x x]+x ⸢x x x-ru^*⸣
Bottom
b.e. 12'b.e. 12'	[x x x x x x]
Reverse
rr	beginning (1-2 lines) lost	(Break)
r 1'1'	ša URU.ši-bir-tú ur-tam-⸢me-ú⸣	(r 1) [......] released [the ...] of the city of Šibirtu and commanded: "Bring the property of Huhhi and a washbasin set in gold!" These were given to them.
r 2'2'	iq-ṭi-bi-ú ma-a É
r 3'3'	^mḫu-uḫ-ḫi ù nar-ma-ak-tú
r 4'4'	šá KUG.GI ṣab-bu-ta-tu-ú-ni
r 5'5'	bi-la-ni it-tan-nu-niš-šu-nu
r 6'6'	[LÚ].ERIM^*-MEŠ ḫar-du-ú-te pa-ni-iu-u-te	(r 6) The soldiers previously on duty plundered [the country of ...]riuni; [(should) I re]turn, by what means [...] the city of Tabal? Accordingly, when [......], I will [...] food [......
r 7'7'	[URU.x]+⸢x⸣-ri-ú-ni iḫ-tab-tu
r 8'8'	[ú]-⸢sa⸣-ḫar ina ŠÀ^* mi-i-ni URU.tab-URU
r 9'9'	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-lak id—da-a-te ⸢ki-i⸣
r 10'10'	[x x x x]-⸢ú⸣-ni a-kul-lu-ú [o]
r 11'11'	[x x x x]-šu-nu la-⸢áš^*⸣-[x x]
r 12'12'	[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334791/.