SAA 15 172. Fragment Mentioning the Ru’ua, Kalbi-Uku and the Son of Yakin (CT 53 029)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
oo	beginning destroyed	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]
o 2'2'	[x x x x x x x LÚ^v].⸢ru-ʾu⸣-ú-a ša a-na	(2) [...... the] Ru'ua who
o 3'3'	[x x x x x x x x]-⸢ta⸣-ri it-ta-tak-ku	(3) [......] went away
o 4'4'	[x x x ma-a ^mkal-bi]—⸢ú⸣-ku-u-a ip-ta-làḫ	(4) [...... Kalbi]-Ukû became afraid
o 5'5'	[x x x x x x x]-⸢lu⸣-ku ERIM-MEŠ ša DUMU—^mia-GIN	(5) [......] The men of the son of Yakin
o 6'6'	[x x x x x x x x] i-šad-da-du-u-ni	(6) [...... who] are hauling
o 7'7'	[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina UGU-ḫi-ía i-sa-bar	(7) [......] has written to me: "Come [to] my help [......]!
o 8'8'	[ma-a x x x a-na] a.a-li-ia al-⸢ka⸣
o 9'9'	[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ al-lak UD-MEŠ [x x]	(9) I shall go [... ...] days [...]
o 10'10'	[x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ ba ⸢x⸣+[x x x]	(9) I shall go [... ...] days [...]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x x] ⸢i ra⸣ [x x x]
r 2'2'	[x x x x x]-⸢šú⸣ un-[x x x x]
r 3'3'	[x x x]-⸢iḫ⸣-ḫu-u-ni [x x x]	(r 3) [......]...[...]
r 4'4'	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-bil at-te-⸢x⸣+[x x x]	(r 4) [... brou]ght [...]
r 5'5'	[at-ta]-lak ṭè-mu ša [x x x]	(r 5) I [...ed and we]nt [...]. News of [the ...s]: all is [well]. They are keeping watch over them.
r 6'6'	[DÙG.GA] a—dan-niš EN.NUN-⸢šú-nu⸣
r 7'7'	[i]-⸢na⸣-ṣu-ru
	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P313444/.