SAA 05 084. The Mannean King Raids Urarṭian Cities (ABL 0381)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a
o 33	lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	KUR.man-a.a i-na ŠÀ URU-MEŠ-ni	(4) The Mannean has attacked the Urarṭian cities in the district along the lake shore but has left and gone up (the mountains).
o 55	ša KUR.URI-a.a
o 66	i—na-gi-e ša šid-di
o 77	ti-amat i-zu-qu-pu
o 88	i-ti-ši e-te-li
o 99	^ma-ba^*-lu-qu-nu LÚ^v.EN.NAM	(9) Abaluqunu, the governor of Muṣaṣir, and Ṭunbaun, the governor of Kar-sipar[ri], have gone to the Mannean border, to guard (it).
o 1010	ša URU.mu-ṣa-ṣi-ri
o 1111	^mṭu-un-ba^*-un LÚ^v.EN.NAM
o 1212	ša ⸢URU⸣.kar-si-par-[ri]
Reverse
r 1r 1	i-na UGU ta-ḫu-⸢me⸣
r 22	ša KUR.man-a.a i-tal-ku
r 33	a-na ma-ṣar-te
r 44	KUR.URI-a.a	(r 4) The Urarṭian is in Ṭuruṣpâ, making his sacrifices. All the governors are with him.
r 55	i-na URU.ṭu-ru-uš-pa-a šu-u
r 66	UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ-šú e-pa-áš
r 77	LÚ^v.EN.NAM-MEŠ gab-bu
r 88	i—pa-ni-šú šu-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/P334257/.