891 – 844 BC reign
The Hittite letter KBo XVIII 25 (+) XXXI 69 [46][46]See Mora and Giorgieri 2004: 99-106 (no. 5); also Hagenbuchner… is composed of two fragments in indirect join (Mora and Giorgieri 2004: 99 n. 1). Although preservation of the text is not good, it provides the following relevant part as KBo XVIII 25 reads:
(obv.!) nu mGIŠ.TUKUL-ti-dIB-u[š] (3’) [… A-NA LUGAL KUR kar-q]a-miš EGIR-pa pé-eš-t[a] (4’) [… U]RU.wa-šu-qa-an-na ú-wa-an-za e-eš-ta (5’) […-a]n-da-at nu A-┌BU┐-KA GIM-an (6’) [… U]RU.DIDLI.ḪÁ A-NA LUGAL KUR kar-ga-maš SUM-ta (7’) […] x-aḫ-ḫu-un na-at ŠEŠ- ┌IA┐ [ša-ak-du]
Tukulti-Ninurta gav[e] back [… to the king of the land of Carch]emish. […] Waššukanni (…) had come. […].. When your father gave (back) [… the ci]ties to the king of the land of Carchemish, I [ did not …]. [May] my brother [know] it.
KBo XVIII 25
written to Tudhaliyas IV of Hatti