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  • CDLI P334721
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: Rm 0554
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 1079

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
  • Dated: no

Sender Information

  • Sender: [Sennacherib]
  • Location: Royal Court
  • Recipient: [the king]
  • View dossier

SAA 01 030. The King Of Urarṭu Defeated by the Cimmerians (ABL 1079)[via saao/saa01]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Break)

o 1'1'

[ma-a LÚv.GAL?]—⸢É-ka⸣ ina É*-⸢ia? ap?⸣-ti*-qid*

(1) "[...... I have] appointed your [major]-domo in [my] palace."

o 2'2'

[an-ni]-ú ṭè-e-mu ša maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a

(2) [Thi]s was the report of Aššur-reṣuwa. [Šulmu]-Bel, the deputy of the Palace Herald came into my presence (with the following report):

o 3'3'

[mDI-mu]—EN LÚv.02-ú ša LÚv.600—É.GAL

o 4'4'

[ina pa]-⸢ni⸣-ia it-tal-ka ma-a mur-za-an-na

(4) "Urzana has written to me: 'The troops of the Urarṭian king have been defeated on his expedition against the Cimmerians. The governor of Waisi has been killed; we do not have detailed information yet, but as soon as we have it, we will send you a full report.'

o 5'5'

[is]-sa-ap-ra ma-a LUGAL* KUR.URI-a.a

o 6'6'

[ina KUR].⸢PAB*⸣-ir* bé-et il-lik-ú-ni

o 7'7'

[ma]-a LÚv.e-mu-qe-e-šú de-e-ka

Bottom
b.e. 8'b.e. 8'

⸢ma⸣-a LÚv.EN.NAM ša URU.ú-a-si

b.e. 9'9'

[o] de-e-ke ma-a qu-di-i-ni

b.e. 10'10'

[o*] ba*-ti*-iq-tú la-a ni-ḫar-ra-ṣa

Reverse
r 1r 1

[ma]-⸢a⸣ ki-ma ni-iḫ-ta-ár-ṣa

r 22

[mi-i-nu] ša ṭè-e-mu-ni ni-šá-par-ka

r 33

[ù ma-a] ⸢LÚv⸣.šá—BAD-ḪAL-a-te

(r 3) "[Further: The] cavalrymen [under the command of Šar]ru-lu-dari have disappeared and are on the run in Urarṭu. [The sc]outs of the household of the Palace Herald [operating in the t]erritory of Hubuškia [......] have caught [...... the city of] Birate [......"

r 44

[ša ŠU.2 m]⸢LUGAL*⸣—lu—da-a-ri

r 55

[ina KUR].⸢URI⸣ ḫal-qu il-lu-ku

r 66

[LÚv.da-a].a-li ša É LÚv.600—É.GAL

r 77

[ma-a ša ina] ⸢ta⸣-ḫu-me ša KUR.ḫu-bu-uš-ki-a

r 88

[x x x x x x] ⸢uṣ*⸣-ṣab-bit-ú-ni

r 99

[x x x x x x URU].bir-a-te

r 1010

[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu

r 1111

[x x x x x x x x]-bat

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334721/.

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