SAA 05 103. Manhunt (ABL 0590)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning (about 10 lines) broken away | |
| o 1'1' | (1) "Have the men re[ally] not fallen into [their hands] in the city [...]?" | |
| o 2'2' | ||
| o 3'3' | ||
| o 4'4' | ||
| o 5'5' | (5) I sent Saniye, the city lord, and Kaqqadanu to bring (them), and asked them where the men are. | |
| o 6'6' | ||
| o 7'7' | ||
| o 8'8' | ||
| o 9'9' | (9) They said: "The men have got scared," and informed me as follows: "The men are in there; let them extend the ... for us until they fall into our hands." | |
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 10'b.e. 10' | ||
| b.e. 11'11' | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | (r 5) If the king, [my] lo[rd], orders, Saniye [and Kaqqadan]u [...] before [......] | |
| r 66 | msa-ni-ie [x x x] ⸢ni*⸣ | |
| r 77 | ||
| rest broken away |
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/P334405/.