SAA 05 086. The Army of Urarṭu on the March (ABL 0492)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant] Aššur-reṣuwa. [Good hea]lth to the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | (4) [The ki]ng of Urarṭu has left Ṭurušpâ [on the fir]st of Nisan (I) and gone to Elizzada. Kaqqadanu, his commander-in-chief, has gone to Waisi. The whole Urarṭian army is marching [t]o Elizzada, following the king. | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | (13) Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "[H]ow [are they positioned]?" — | |
o 1414 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) I have [n]ot heard [any report ... y]et. | |
r 44 | [x x x]-⸢ni⸣ | |
rest uninscribed |
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/P334339/.