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SAA 05 145

  • CDLI P334060
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 00485
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 0112

Provenance

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Text Details

  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Sender: Urdu-Sin
  • Location: Eastern Kurdistan
  • Recipient: the palace herald

Date

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

SAA 05 145. Cimmerian Invasion of Urarṭu (ABL 0112)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na .NÍGIRÉ.GAL

(1) To the Palace Herald, my lord: your servant Urda-Sin.

o 22

EN-ia

o 33

ARAD-ka mARADd30

o 44

[].ga-me-ra-a.a

(4) The Cimmerian (king) has departed from Mannea this [...] and entered Urarṭu. He is ... [in] Hu'diadae; Sarduri is [...] in Ṭur[u]špâ.

o 55

x an?-ni*-ú

o 66

it*-tu*-ṣi TAv ŠÀ-bi

o 77

KUR*.ma*-na*-a.a

o 88

ina* ŠÀ*-bi* KUR.URI

o 99

e*-tar-ba

o 1010

[ina] URU*.ḫu?--di-a-da-e

o 1111

[x x]+x x x md15—BÀD

o 1212

[ina] URU*.ṭu*-ru*-*-pa*-a

o 1313

[x] ŠÀ? [x] šá*-ki-ni

o 1414

*.DUMUšip-ri

(14) The messenger of the governor of Wais[i] has gone to Ur[za]na for [help], saying: "Let yo[ur] troops come to (aid) the people of Pulia and Suriana."

o 1515

šá .EN.NAM

Bottom
b.e. 16b.e. 16

URU.ú-e-si*

b.e. 1717

UGU mur-[za]-ni

b.e. 1818

it-tal*-[ka]

Reverse
r 1r 1

ina UGU [kit?-ri?]

r 22

ma-a e*-mu-qi-ka

r 33

lil-li-ku-ni

r 44

ina UGU URU.pu-li-a.a

r 55

ina UGU URU.su-ri-a-na-a.a

r 66

KUR.URI gab-bi-šú

(r 6) All of Urarṭu is extremely frightened. They are assembling troops, saying: "Perhaps we can attack him, once there is more snow."

r 77

ip-ta-làḫ

r 88

ada-niš

r 99

e-mu-qi ú-pa-ḫu-ru

r 1010

ma-a isu-ri

r 1111

ki-ma ku-pu-u

r 1212

i-di-i-ni

r 1313

ma-a ni-za-qu-pu

r 1414

ina UGU-ḫi-šu

r 1515

ina UGU ḫu-ub-ti

(r 15) As to this booty which they said he has taken, they do say that of the district of Arhi, [...]......

r 1616

an-ni-e

Right
r.e. 17r.e. 17

ša iq-bu-ni

r.e. 1818

ma-a ḫu-ub-

r.e. 1919

iḫ-ta-bat

Edge
e. 1e. 1

i-ba-ši i-qab-bi-u ma-a šá na-gi-e

e. 22

šá URU.ar*-ḫi* x x-ši* ma-a a-di? ZI kar ni?


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/P334060/.