SAA 19 071. Chief Cupbearer Defeated by Rusa (CTN 5 p. 119)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-[ia]	(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Ašš[ur-le'i].
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-⸢šur^*⸣—[ZU]	(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Ašš[ur-le'i].
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o 33	LÚ^v.GAL—KAŠ.LUL	(3) When the chief cupbearer entered with the army, Rusa came and defeated him. Not one of them got out (alive).
o 44	É TA e-mu-qí
o 55	e-ru-bu-ni
o 66	^m⸢ur⸣-sa-a i-tal-ka
o 77	ik-ta-šá-su
o 88	01-en TA ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu
o 99	la ú-ṣi-a
o 1010	il-la-ka	(10) He is marching on and setting on the forts of the chief cupbearer, and is going to do battle.
o 1111	ina UGU URU.⸢ḪAL.ṢU⸣-MEŠ
o 1212	ša LÚ^v.GAL—KAŠ.LUL
o 1313	i-šak-kan
Reverse
r 1r 1	qa-ra-bu e-pa-áš
r 22	LUGAL ⸢ki ša i^?-la^?-u^?-ni^?⸣	(r 2) May the king do as he deems best.
r 33	le-⸢pu⸣-uš	(r 2) May the king do as he deems best.
	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P224422/.