SAA 05 091. Revolt against the King of Urarṭu (ABL 0144)[via saao/saa05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 33	ina UGU ^mna-ra-ge-e LÚ^v.GAL—ka^*-ṣir	(3) As regards Naragê, the chief tailor about whom I wrote to the king, my lord: "He and 20 of his fellow eunuchs who conspired against the king have been arrested" —
o 44	ša a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía áš-pur-an-ni
o 55	nu-uk 20 LÚ^v.SAG-MEŠ i-si-šu
o 66	ša ina UGU LUGAL id-di-bu-ub-u-ni
o 77	ṣa-ab-bu-tú ú-ma-a LUGAL KUR.URI-a.a	(7) the king of Urarṭu has now entered Ṭurušpâ and questioned them. They have dragged forth and killed the rest of the people involved in the plot — 100 men, including the eunuchs and the bearded courtiers.
o 88	ina URU.ṭu-ur-uš-pa-a e-ta-rab
o 99	ú-sa-ni-iq-šú-nu ERIM-MEŠ re-ḫu-te
o 1010	ša i-si-šú-nu i-sa-du-ú-ni
o 1111	a-di LÚ^v.SAG-MEŠ a-di LÚ^v.ša—SU₆-MEŠ
o 1212	01 me šu-nu ERIM-MEŠ de^!-e-ku
o 1313	^mur-ṣe-né-e LÚ^v.tur-ta-nu 02-u	(13) Urṣenê, the deputy commander-in-chief, brother of Abliuqnu, was likewise arrested in Ṭurušpâ. When Abliuqnu came to Ṭurušpâ, he (i.e. the king) questioned him and this brother of his. No sword was drawn; they let them go.
o 1414	ŠEŠ-šú ša ^mab-li-uq-nu
o 1515	ina ŠÀ URU.ṭu-ur-uš-pa-a ṣa-bi-ti
o 1616	^mab-li-uq-nu ina URU.ṭu-ur-uš-pa-a
o 1717	i-tal-ka a-na šá-a-šú a-na ŠEŠ-šú
o 1818	an-ni-e i-sa-al-šú-nu GÍR^* me-me-ni
o 1919	la-a qur-bu i-ti-ši
o 2020	ur-ta-mi-ú-šú-nu
o 2121	ina UGU ^mi-ṣi-ie-e	(21) As to Iṣiye about whom the king, my lord, wrote me, nobody knows where he is; I keep inquiring, but nobody can tell me whether he is alive or dead.
o 2222	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni
Bottom
b.e. 23b.e. 23	me-me-ni la^* ú-da
b.e. 2424	É šu-ú-tu-u-⸢ni⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	a-sa-na-al me-me-ni
r 22	la i-qab-bi-a šúm-mu
r 33	mé-e-te šúm-mu ba-al-ṭa
r 44	LÚ^v.A—KIN ša ina ŠÀ KUR.⸢ú⸣-ki <$x$>	(r 4) The messenger whom I send to Ukku never sees any trace of him; he keeps inquiring, but nobody tells him anything. I am now sending (spies) to inquire and investigate, and shall write (again) to the king, my lord.
r 55	a-šap-par-u-ni la-áš-⸢šú^*⸣ la e-mar-šú
r 66	i-sa-na-al me-me-ni
r 77	la i-qab-ba-áš-šú
r 88	ú-ma-a a-šap-par i-ša^*-ú-lu
r 99	ú-ṣu-uṣ a-na LUGAL
r 1010	a-šap-par

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334090/.