SAA 15 088. A Failed Surprise Attack (CT 53 232)[via saao/saa15]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good h]ealth to [the king, my lord]! The land of the k[ing my lord is well]. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | [ṭè-e]-⸢mu*⸣ ša m[x x x x] | |
| o 55 | [ma-a m]EN-šú-nu m⸢x⸣+[x x x] | (5) "Belšunu, [NN, and ...]ri, servants [of ...], thr[ew ...] against him [and] went down [...] his [...]. |
| o 66 | [mx x x]-ri ARAD-MEŠ [x x] | |
| o 77 | [x x ina] UGU-ḫi-šú ik-⸢ta⸣-[ru] | |
| o 88 | [x x x]-ki*-šú i*-tu*-ur-du [o] | |
| o 99 | (9) ["He (however) set out ea]rly [and ...ed] with them. When they saw [that] he had heard [...], they got up and [retur]ned to the [Puq]udu | |
| o 1010 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-i e-ma-ru-u-ni | |
| o 1111 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ iš-ši-mu-u-ni | |
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | uninscribed |
Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P313647/.