SAA 17 144. Old Border (ABL 1467)[via saao/saa17]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]

o 2'2'

KUR.NIM.MA.KI [x x x x]

(2) Elam [...]

o 3'3'

mi-ṣir la-bi-[ru x x x]

(3) the ol[d] border [...]

o 4'4'

dGAŠAN šá UNUG.KI u [x x x x]

(4) the Lady of Uruk and [...]

o 5'5'

en-na LUGAL a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]

(5) Now the king has [...] for [the ... of] his gods [...]

o 6'6'

DINGIR-MEŠ-šú it-[x x x x x]

o 7'7'

ḫa-mu-ú ina IGI [x x x]

(7) they rejoice, before [...]

Reverse
r 1r 1

šá mLUGAL—⸢GIN⸣ [x x x x x]

(r 1) of Sarg[on ...]

r 22

LÚ.É—ma-⸢muk*⸣-[a-nu x x x]

(r 2) the Bit-Amu[kaneans ...]

r 33

šá mLUGAL—⸢GIN⸣ [x x x x x]

(r 3) of Sarg[on ...]

r 44

it-tab-lu [x x x x x x]

(r 4) have carried away [...]

r 55

šá mLUGAL—⸢GIN⸣ [x x x x x]

(r 5) of Sarg[on ...]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. 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/P239306/.