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  • SAA 15 088

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  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Sargon2.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Administrative Letter

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SAA 15, 088

SAA 15 088. A Failed Surprise Attack (CT 53 232)[via saao/saa15]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a-na] LUGAL be--ía [ARAD-ka mdPAENGIN]

(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: [your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good h]ealth to [the king, my lord]! The land of the k[ing my lord is well].

o 22

[lu-u] DI-mu a-na [LUGAL be--ía]

o 33

[DI-mu a]-na? KUR ša LUGAL [EN-ía]

o 44

[ṭè-e]-mu* ša m[x x x x]

(4) [I have received the (following) new]s of [NN]:

o 55

[ma-a m]EN-šú-nu mx+[x x x]

(5) "Belšunu, [NN, and ...]ri, servants [of ...], thr[ew ...] against him [and] went down [...] his [...].

o 66

[mx x x]-ri ARAD-MEŠ [x x]

o 77

[x x ina] UGU-ḫi-šú ik-ta-[ru]

o 88

[x x x]-ki*-šú i*-tu*-ur-du [o]

o 99

[iḫ-tu]-ru-up i-si-šú-nu

(9) ["He (however) set out ea]rly [and ...ed] with them. When they saw [that] he had heard [...], they got up and [retur]ned to the [Puq]udu

o 1010

[x x x]+x ki-i e-ma-ru-u-ni

o 1111

[x x x]+x -ši-mu-u-ni

o 1212

[ma-a i]-ba-áš-ši it-ta-ab-bu

o 1313

[i-su-uḫ]-ru a-na v.[pu]-qu-di

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Reverse
runinscribed


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/P313647/.