SAA 05 114. The King of Urarṭu Gathers his Army (CT 53 007)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the kin[g, my lord]: your servant Gab[bu-ana-Aššur]. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) The king of Urarṭu has assembled his army in Wazana; I have [n]ot heard where he intends to go. | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | up-taḫ-⸢ḫi-ir⸣ [o] | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | (7) His son Melarṭua, and Aba[l]iuqunu, the governor [of ...], together with [their] tro[ops ......] | |
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | LÚv.EN.NAM ⸢ša⸣ [KUR.x x]+⸢x⸣-pa | |
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | [x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ⸢x x x⸣ [x] KUR-⸢MEŠ⸣ | (r 1) [...] they will attack [...]... The king, my lord, should know this; the king, my lord, should not say: "Why did you not write even though you heard?" |
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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/P313422/.