SAA 05 283. Arrival of a Royal Messenger (CT 53 658)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x x x x] la [x x x x] | |
o 2'2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
o 3'3' | (3) [I]n [his] letter [it was written as follows]: | |
o 4'4' | (4) "While [I was] he[re], a messenger of [the king of ... c]ame [t]o [m]e in the city [...]; he had [no]t reached me in [...] | |
o 5'5' | ||
o 6'6' | [ina] UGU-[ḫi]-⸢ia⸣ a-na URU.[x x x x] | |
o 7'7' | ⸢it⸣-tal-ka ma-a ina [x x x x] | |
o 8'8' | ⸢la?⸣ ik-šu-da-ni [x x x x] | |
o 9'9' | [x x x]+⸢x É⸣ [x x x x x] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x] e-⸢tar⸣-[x x x x x] | |
r 2'2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ e ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
r 3'3' | [x x]-ik-tú [x x x x x] | |
r 4'4' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ra tú [x x x x x] | |
r 5'5' | (r 5) thi[s lett]er [ca]me [to me ......] | |
r 6'6' | [it]-⸢tal⸣-ka [x x x x x] | |
rest broken away |
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/P314070/.