SAA 05 169. King of Zikirtu as Horse Trader (ABL 0205)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-iqiša.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^d15—MU—BA-šá	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-iqiša.
o 33	an-nu-rig LÚ.MAḪ-MEŠ	(3) The emissaries of the Zikirtean (king) are now coming; the messengers of the Urarṭian who had gone to the [Zi]kirtean are coming with them as captives.
o 44	LÚ^v.zi-gír-ta-a.a DU-u-ni
o 55	LÚ^v.DUMU—šip-ra^*-ni : ša KUR.URI-a.a
o 66	ša ina UGU LÚ^v.[zi]-gír-ta-a.a
o 77	DU-u-ni : ṣa-bu-tú : i-si-šú-nu
o 88	DU-u-ni : ina UGU : KA	(8) I have had money brought up and deposited in the stronghold, (relying) on the word of the Zikirtean, who said: "I shall sell you the horses in Paššate."
o 99	ša LÚ^v.zi-gír-ta-a.a kas-pu
o 1010	ú-se-li : ina URU.dan^*-ni-te
o 1111	a-sa-kan : ma-a : ana : KUR.pa-áš-šá-te
o 1212	ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ SUM-ka
o 1313	ú-ma-a : bir-ti IGI.2-MEŠ	(13) Now let it be impressed upon the emissaries, as the emissaries are trying hard to back out of their word, claiming: "We have not heard about (such a promise) by our lord."
o 1414	ša LÚ^v.MAḪ-MEŠ
o 1515	lu-u-ma-di-du
Reverse
r 1r 1	ma-aʾ-da : LÚ^v.MAḪ-MEŠ
r 22	KA-šú-nu : ú-šá-bal-ku-tú
r 33	ma-a TA^v UGU : ša : LÚ^v.EN-ni^*
r 44	la ni-iš-me : a-na LÚ^v.MAḪ	(r 4) The king should ask the second emissary; he knows that he gave the order to the commander-in-chief.
r 55	02-e : LUGAL : liš-al : šu-u-tú
r 66	DU ZU : a-ki a-na LÚ^v.tur-tan
r 77	ṭè-e-mu : iš-kun-u-ni
	rest uninscribed

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/P334149/.