SAA 15 355. Report on a Battle (CT 53 360)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x] A.ŠÀ ⸢x⸣+[x x x]	(1) [......] the field [...]
o 2'2'	[x x x x] Á.2-ni ina ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-šú-nu	(2) [...] our force on them
o 3'3'	[x x x x] ma-a ket-tú 01.en	(3) [...] "Really one
o 4'4'	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni-iṣ-ṣab-bat	(4) [...] we captured
o 5'5'	[x x x x]-⸢tu⸣-ʾu ma-a la-áš-šú	(5) [...] "there are no [It]u'u (troops)
o 6'6'	[x x x x]-ši la il-lak	(6) [...] does not go
o 7'7'	[x x x x] LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ ša ú-ba-ru-u-ni	(7) [...] the men whom they caught
o 8'8'	[x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣-e be-lí-ía	(8) [... to the k]ing my lord?
o 9'9'	[x x x x x]-tú am—mar LUGAL be-lí	(9) [......] all that the king, my lord,
o 10'10'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ú-sal-lim a-na	(10) [......] he completed
Bottom		(10) [......] he completed
b.e. 11'b.e. 11'	[x x x x x x]-mu-ti	(11) [...... th]ose
b.e. 12'12'	[x x x x x x] me	(12) [......]
b.e. 13'13'	[x x x x x x] URU	(13) [......] the town
Reverse		(13) [......] the town
r 1r 1	[x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣	(r 1) [......]
r 22	[x x x x x x x] ⸢x x mi⸣-i-nu	(r 2) [...... w]hat
r 33	[x x x x x x x]-ri-ti	(r 3) [......]...
r 44	[x x x x x x]-⸢x⸣-ku	(r 4) [......]
r 55	[x x x x x x] ⸢lu⸣-u-du	(r 5) [...... s]hould know
r 66	[x x x x x] ⸢i x⸣	(r 6) [......]
r 77	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ur	(r 7) [......]
r 88	[x x x li^?]-⸢il⸣-bi	(r 8) [... he should] surround [...]
r 99	[x x an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ TÚG.maš-kan	(r 9) [... Now the]n a tent
r 1010	[x x x x x]+⸢x LUGAL a.a⸣-[x]	(r 10) [......] the king to m[e]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P313774/.