SAA 05 131. An Attack on Urarṭian Border Forts (CT 53 454)


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x] ⸢URU⸣.bi-ra-ti ša KUR.⸢URI⸣-[a.a]	(1) [The Mannean] has atta[cked] the forts of the [king of] Urarṭu [which are situated on] his border, and let [his troops] occupy the forts.
o 2'2'	[ša ina UGU] ta-ḫu-mi-šú i-zu-⸢qu⸣-[pu]
o 3'3'	[ERIM-MEŠ-šú ina] ⸢URU⸣.bi-ra-ti ú-se-⸢li⸣
o 4'4'	[LÚ^v.tur]-⸢ta⸣-nu ša KUR.URI-a.a a-di [e-mu-qi-šú]	(4) [The] Urarṭian [commander]-in-chief has gone [to he]lp with [his troops ...]
o 5'5'	[a-na a].⸢a⸣-li it-ta-lak [x x x]
o 6'6'	[x x x x x] ina na-gi-⸢e ša⸣ [x x x]	(6) [...] in the district of [......]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)
Reverse
rr	destroyed

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P313867/.