SAA 05 221. News from Mannea (ABL 1416)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na [LUGAL EN-ia]	(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Adad-issiya]. Good he[alth to the king, my lord]!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m[^dIM—KI-ia]
o 33	lu-u DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
o 44	ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni ma-a]	(4) As to what the king, [my] lo[rd, wrote me]: "Why have you [not sent me] an[y news] of the Mannean that you have h[eard]?" —
o 55	a-ta-a mì-⸢i-nu⸣ [ši-ti-ni]
o 66	ša KUR.man-na-a.a ⸢taš⸣-[me^? la taš-pu-ra]
o 77	ina ta-ḫu-mì-i-ni [it-tal-ka]	(7) [he has come] to our border, [made] his sacrifices, and returned (home); [the ... have gone] to greet him.
o 88	UDU.SISKUR-MEŠ-šú^* [e-tap-šá]
o 99	i-su-ḫu-ru ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
o 1010	ina UGU-ḫi-šú a-na DI-[me it-tal-ku]
o 1111	LÚ^v.A—šip-ri-MEŠ ⸢ša^?⸣ [x x x]	(11) The messengers o[f ... have come] from Bar[..., and presented him] the greetings of [...].
o 1212	TA^v URU.MAŠ-⸢da^?⸣-[x x x x x]
o 1313	DI-mu ša [x x x x x x]
	rest (about 4 lines) broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x]
r 2'2'	É i-ba-áš-[šu]-u-ni [x x x]	(r 2) [......] where they are [...].
r 3'3'	TA^v UGU ^m^d[x x x x]	(r 3) As to [NN] about whom the king, [my] lo[rd, wrote me]: "Wh[y does he not ...] to m[y] presen[ce]?"
r 4'4'	ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni]
r 5'5'	ma-a a-ta-[a x x x x]
r 6'6'	ina ⸢pa⸣-ni-⸢ia⸣ [x x x x]
r 7'7'	la ⸢i-ma⸣-[x x x x x x]	(r 7) He does not [...]
r 8'8'	la ⸢i⸣-ma-[x x x x x x]	(r 8) he does not [...]
r 9'9'	ša LÚ^v.[x x x x x x]	(r 9) of the [......]
r 10'10'	iq-⸢qi⸣-[x x x x x x]	(r 10) ...[......]
r 11'11'	i-⸢ta^*⸣-[x x x x x x]	(r 11) ...[......]
r 12'12'	^mDI^-⸢mu^⸣—[EN x x x x x x]	(r 12) Šulm[u-Bel ......]
r 13'13'	i—KASKAL-šú-nu [x x x x x]	(r 13) in their expedition [......]
r 14'14'	ina UGU [x x x x x x]	(r 14) to [......]
Right
r.e. 15r.e. 15	i-[x x x x x x x x]
		(Rest destroyed)

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/P334894/.