SAA 16 016. Cimmerians in Minda (ABL 1161)[via saao/saa16]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | illegible traces of two lines | |
| o 1'1' | (1) [...]ra said: "He [has go]ne (away)." Let the king ask [him]. | |
| o 2'2' | ||
| o 3'3' | ina* ŠÀ* DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-te ⸢ni?⸣-[x] | (3) Thanks to these gods, [they are] ca[lm], and they are alive due to the kindness of the king. |
| o 4'4' | ||
| o 5'5' | (5) Now then he has brought all the Cimmerians, and they are staying in Mindâ. True, they have [not] yet ... | |
| o 6'6' | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 7'b.e. 7' | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] ṭè? [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| rest broken away |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere, The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 16), 2002. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P334765/.