SAA 19 025. Ionian Raids on Levant (CTN 5 p. 164)[via saao/saa19]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Qurdi-ili-lamur. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) The Ionians came and gave battle in Samsim[uruna], Hariṣû and [GN]. | |
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ina URU.ḫa-ri-ṣu-ú ina ⸢URU⸣.[x x x] | |
o 66 | (6) A cav[al]ry[man] came to Daman[...]; I [t]ook the free men and went away. | |
o 77 | [i]-tal-ka a-na URU.⸢da⸣-man?-[x] | |
o 88 | ||
o 99 | (9) They (= the Ionians) did [n]ot take anyth[ing] (and) when [they sa]w [my] tr[oops they embarked] th[eir] boats and [fled] into the midst of the sea. | |
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | [iḫ-tal-qu i]—⸢da-tú⸣-u-a ⸢x⸣+[x (x)] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
r 2'2' | (r 2) [say]ing: "He/It is [at the p]ort of Io[nia]." | |
r 3'3' | šu-u-tú ⸢ana-ku?⸣-ma ⸢a-di la⸣ ina [x x] | (r 3) I myself shall bui[ld] (in) Danab[u] before I go up to [...]. I shall sett[le] there the lone Itu'ean at my disposal and the Itu'[ean] ...[...]. |
r 4'4' | ||
r 5'5' | ||
r 6'6' | ||
r 7'7' | ⸢a?-mur?⸣-[x x]+⸢x⸣ ina ŠÀ-bi lu-še-ši-[bi] | |
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/P393612/.