SAA 05 145. Cimmerian Invasion of Urarṭu (ABL 0112)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the Palace Herald, my lord: your servant Urda-Sin. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (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 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | [x x]+⸢x x x⸣ md15—BÀD | |
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | (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 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 16b.e. 16 | ||
| b.e. 1717 | ||
| b.e. 1818 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | (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 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | (r 15) As to this booty which they said he has taken, they do say that of the district of Arhi, [...]...... | |
| r 1616 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 17r.e. 17 | ||
| r.e. 1818 | ||
| r.e. 1919 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 | ||
| 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/.