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  • SAA 15 173

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

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SAA 15, 173

SAA 15 173. Reporting on Troop Movements in Babylonia (CT 53 364)[via saao/saa15]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-bu-tú pa-ri-iš-tú

(1) [......] definite word

o 2'2'

[x x x x] ⸢dib⸣-bi la-áš-šú-te šú-nu

(2) [......] They are groundless [al]legations

o 3'3'

[x x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni šúm-ma DUMU—KÁ.DINGIR.KI

(3) [......] ... If the Babylonian(s)

o 4'4'

[x x x i]-⸢šap⸣-par-u-ni il-lak-u-ni

(4) [... they will wr]ite and come,

o 5'5'

[x x x x] ⸢šúm⸣-ma šu-ú

(5) [...]; if he

o 6'6'

[x x x x] ib a-ki pu-luḫ-te

(6) [...] terribly

o 7'7'

[x x x x] ⸢ṭè⸣-e-mu ḫar-ṣu

(7) [...] a detailed report

o 8'8'

[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣi-in

(8) [...... will take c]are of

o 9'9'

[x x x x x]-tu-u-ni a-ki

(9) [......] ... as

o 10'10'

[x x x x x x x]-⸢x⸣-ba LÚv.e-muq-qe-e-šú

(10) [......] ... his troops

o 11'11'

[x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ú⸣

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rr beginning broken away

r 1'1'

[x x x x x x x x x]-⸢lak-an⸣-[ni]

(r 1) [...... co]mes

r 2'2'

[x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía

(r 2) [......] the king, my lord,

r 3'3'

[x x x x x] ⸢Á⸣.2-MEŠ-šú-nu

(r 3) [......] their forces

r 4'4'

[x x x x x] ⸢ú⸣-tú-li-ú

(r 4) [......] they have removed

r 5'5'

[x x ṭè-e-mu] ⸢ḫar⸣-ṣu i-šap-par

(r 5) [...] will send a [d]etailed [report to the king, my lord].

r 6'6'

[x x x x x]-ti ša LUGAL be-lí

(r 6) [Concerning the ...] about which the king, my lord, [wrote to me, ... we]nt [but has not s]ent his report [...].

r 7'7'

[iš-pur-an-ni it-ta]-lak ṭè-en-šú

r 8'8'

[x x x x la] ⸢iš⸣-pu-ra

r 9'9'

[x x x x x]-a an-ni-ú

(r 9) [......] this [...]

r 10'10'

[x x x x x] il-lik-an-ni

(r 10) [who] came [......]

r 11'11'

[x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x]

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/P313778/.