SAA 19 074. The Major-Domo of Aššur-le’i in Birdunu (CTN 5 p. 115)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia	(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: your [ser]vant Aššur-le'i.
o 22	⸢ARAD⸣-ka ^maš-šur—ZU	(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: your [ser]vant Aššur-le'i.
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o 33	LÚ^v.GAL—É i-tal-ka	(3) The major-domo has come and entered Birdunu.
o 44	ina URU.bir-du-nu
o 55	e-ta-ra-ba
o 66	LÚ^v.e-mu-qi DAGAL-MEŠ	(6) All the vast troops who escaped have not yet even minimally come together, so we are not able to se[nd] details of how many were killed or taken prisoners.
o 77	am—mar i-pa-ar-ši-⸢du⸣-[ni]
o 88	ú-di-ni a-na ṣa-ḫa-⸢ár⸣ [x]
o 99	la-a i-pa-ḫu-ru
o 1010	⸢am⸣—mar GAZ-MEŠ-ni
o 1111	⸢am⸣—mar ḫab-tu-ú-ni
o 1212	ba-tiq-tú la-a ni-⸢ḫa^*⸣-[ra-ṣa]
o 1313	⸢LÚ^v⸣.DUMU—šip-ri ša LUGAL	(13) The messenger of the king, my [lor]d [is in the presence of] Inurta-ila'i [......]
o 1414	⸢EN⸣-ia
o 1515	[ina IGI] ^m^dMAŠ—DINGIR-a.a
Bottom
b.e. 16b.e. 16	[x x]-⸢ta-qí⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	[x x x x] ⸢x x⸣
r 22	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
r 33	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
r 44	[x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣
r 55	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x]
	rest uninscribed	(Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. 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/P393633/.