SAA 05 171. Arrival of Foreign Princes with Horse Tribute (ABL 0466)


Obverse
o 1o 1	^mia-la-[x x]	(1) Yala[...], the crown prince of And[ia], is coming t[o ...], accompanied by the em[issary] Nergal-belu-uṣur.
o 22	DUMU—LUGAL KUR.an-⸢di⸣-[a.a]
o 33	i-la-ka a-[na x x]
o 44	^m^dMAŠ.MAŠ—EN—PAB LÚ^v.⸢qur⸣-[bu-tú]
o 55	i-si-šu [o]

o 66	16 ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ ⸢SA₅⸣-MEŠ	(6) 16 red horses; 13 irginu horses; 14 black horses; 1 Haršean horse; 1 tuanu horse; 6 mares; 5 mules; in all 51 horses from the crown prince of Andia.
o 77	13 KUR-MEŠ ir-gi-ni
o 88	14 KUR-MEŠ GI₆-MEŠ
o 99	01 KUR ḫar-šá-a.a
o 1010	01 KUR tu-a-nu
o 1111	06 KUR MÍ.ḪÚB-MEŠ
Reverse
r 1r 1	05 ANŠE.GÌR.NUN.NA-MEŠ-šú
r 22	PAB 51 KUR-MEŠ ša DUMU—LUGAL
r 33	KUR.an-di-a.a

r 44	^ma-bat—LUGAL—PAB LÚ^v.MAḪ	(r 4) Abat-šarri-uṣur, the Mannean emissary, is coming with them. I asked him: "Is the audience gift with you?"
r 55	KUR.man-na-a.a : i-si-šú-nu
r 66	i-la-ka
r 77	a-sa-al-šú
r 88	ma-a na-mur-tú [o]
r 99	i-ba-ši
r 1010	ŠU.2-ti-ku-⸢nu⸣-[u]
r 1111	ma-a ⸢pa^*-x x⸣ [x]	(r 11) He said: "[......] to [......];
r 1212	a^*-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
Right
r.e. 13r.e. 13	ma-a ⸢mi⸣-[i-nu]	(r.e. 13) "what[ever ...] ...[...]."
r.e. 1414	šá ú-[x x x]	(r.e. 13) "what[ever ...] ...[...]."
r.e. 1515	ú-⸢qa⸣-[x x x]

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/P334321/.