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SAA 05 093

  • CDLI P313779
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 07466 + K 13024
  • Primary publication(s): CT 53 365+

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

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

Sender Information

  • Sender: [Aššur-reṣuwa]
  • Location: Kumme
  • Recipient: [the king]
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SAA 05 093. A Coup d’État in Urarṭu (CT 53 365+)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
obeginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[ina] URU.[x x x]

(1) His magnates [sur]rounded him in [..., at the ou]tskirts of Wai[si], and killed him.

o 2'2'

[ša] qa-ni URU.ú-e-[si]

o 3'3'

v.GAL-MEŠ-šú

o 4'4'

il-ti-bi-ú-šu

o 5'5'

i-du-ku-šu

o 6'6'

v.tur-ta-nu

(6) The right-hand commander-in-chief, of the family [of Sar]duri, [......] but has [not y]et entered Ṭu[rušp]â.

o 7'7'

ša ZAG ša qi-i-ni

o 8'8'

[m]d[15]BÀD

Bottom
b.e. 9'b.e. 9'

[x x x]+x x+[x] x [(x)] bi

Reverse
r 1r 1

[x x x] ŠÀ [x] x [x x]+x

r 22

[ú]-di-na ina URU.ṭu-ur-[]-pa-a

r 33

[la] e-rab-ba [o]

r 44

[i]su-ri LUGAL be- [o]

(r 4) [Per]haps the king, my lord, [will s]ay: "[...]

r 55

[i-qab]-bi ma-a [x] KUR.[x x]

r 66

[x x] URU.ḪAL.ṢU a-[x x x]

(r 6) [...] the fort [...]

r 77

[x x x] la ú-du-[u x x]

(r 7) [...] they do not kn[ow ...]

r 88

[x x] ša URU.ḪAL.ṢU [x x]

(r 8) [... o]f the for[t ...]

r 99

[x x x] x URU.ú-[e-si x]

(r 9) [...] W[aisi]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)


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/P313779/.