SAA 05 217. Preparing for War in Mannea (ABL 0342)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-issiya. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dIM—KI-ia
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	02 LÚ^v.GAL—ki-ṣir-MEŠ	(4) I se[n]t two cavalry cohort commanders to Sanha and Ulušia to the king's subjects who are there. They went and saw them: the equipment (they had received) there and the barley rations specified in their tablet were there.
o 55	ša BAD-ḪAL-li ina URU.sa-an-ḫa
o 66	ina URU.ú-lu-ši-a
o 77	ina UGU LÚ^v.ARAD-MEŠ ša LUGAL
o 88	ša ina ŠÀ-bi a-sap-⸢ra⸣
o 99	i-ta-at-ku e-tam-ru-šú-nu
o 1010	til-li ša ina ŠÀ-bi ŠE.⸢PAD⸣-MEŠ
o 1111	ša ṭup-pi-šú-nu i-ba-ši ina ŠÀ-bi
o 1212	ú-ḫu-ta-ri-du-šú-nu	(12) They warned them, and their guard is very strong. The king, my lord, can be glad.
o 1313	ma-ṣar-ta-šú-nu dan-na-at
o 1414	a—dan-niš ŠÀ-bu ša LUGAL
o 1515	EN-ia lu DÙG.⸢GA⸣
o 1616	^m^dkù^*-KÁ—DINGIR-a.⸢a⸣	(16) The king, my lord, knows that Kubaba-ila'i masters the language. I sent him to Tikriš, and he gave us this detailed report. We are herewith sending it to the king, my lord.
o 1717	LUGAL EN ú-da
o 1818	EN—li-šá-ni šú-u
Reverse
r 1r 1	ina URU.ti-ik-ri-iš
r 22	a-sap-ár-šu šu-ú
r 33	ṭè-mu an-ni-ú iḫ-tar-ṣa
r 44	iq-ṭi-ba-a-na-a-ši
r 55	ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia ni-sap-ra
r 66	am—mar UD-mu-MEŠ ša ina ta-ḫu-me	(r 6) All the time I have been encamped on the Mannean border, the son of the widow has been encamped opposite me on his side of the border.
r 77	ša KUR.man-na-a.a ma-dàk-tú
r 88	šá-ak-na-ku-u-ni DUMU MÍ.al-mat^*-te
r 99	i—pu-tú-u-a.a ma-dàk-tú
r 1010	ina UGU ta-ḫu-me-šu šá-ki-in
r 1111	ina ŠÀ UD-mu ša ^m^dMAŠ.MAŠ—EN—PAB	(r 11) The very day that Nergal-belu-uṣur came here ordering me to depart and I entered the Mannean territory, I sent my 'third man' to him, saying: "Set out!" He said he was sick. I said: "Let your son come!" He said: "He is sick too; I shall send my brother with my troops."
r 1212	DU-a-ni ú-na-me-šá-a-ni-ni
r 1313	ina KUR.man-na-a.a e-ru-bu-u-ni
r 1414	LÚ^v.03.U₅-ia ina UGU-šú
r 1515	a-sap-ra muk^* na-me-šá
r 1616	ma-a mar-ṣa-ak : ^mumuk^*
Right
r.e. 17r.e. 17	DUMU-ka li-li-ka
r.e. 1818	ma-a ma-ri-ṣi-ma
Edge
e. 1e. 1	ma-a ŠEŠ-u-a TA^v ERIM-MEŠ-ia áš-par LÚ^v.03.U₅	(e. 1) I sent the 'third man,' but he (i.e., this brother) has not yet showed up. The rest of the troops of the city lords are with me.
e. 22	a-sap-ra ú-di-ni ina IGI-ia la i-qa-rib-u-ni
e. 33	re-eḫ-ti LÚ^v.e-mu-qi ša LÚ^v.EN—URU-MEŠ
e. 44	ina IGI-ia šú-nu

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/P334222/.