SAA 05 164. King of Urarṭu Facing Battle with Sargon (ABL 0515)
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [To] the king, my lord: your servant Bel-iddina. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) As to the news of the Urarṭian, a messenger of the Andian and a messenger of the Zikirtean have gone to Waisi and told him: "The king of Assyria is upon us." | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | (12) The day he saw the messengers he set out to Zikirtu, he himself with his troops. | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e.b.e. | uninscribed | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | (r 3) The Hubuškian too went with him, for five stages. (Then) he turned back and ordered his magnates: "Organize your troops, I shall array myself against the Assyrian king." | |
| r 44 | 05 ma*-di-tú | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | (r 11) This is from [in]formers; (the part) concerning the arraying is from informers. | |
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 |
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/P334355/.