SAA 05 241. A Babylonian Asks for Audience (ABL 0522)


Obverse
o 1 o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 2 2	ARAD-ka ^m^dIM—DÙ
o 3 3	lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL
o 4 4	be-lí-ia
o 5 5	DUMU—KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI	(5) A Babylonian has come to me, saying: "I have things to say; let them take me to the Palace" —
o 6 6	šu-u ina UGU-ḫi-ia
o 7 7	it-tal-ka ma-a di-bi
o 8 8	ina KA-ia ma-a ina É.GAL
o 9 9	lu-bi-lu-u-ni
o 10 10	ú-ma-a an-nu-rig	(10) now then I am sending him to the king, my lord; let the king, my lord, ask him what he has to say.
o 11 11	ina pa-an LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 12 12	ú-se-bi-la-šu
o 13 13	LUGAL be-lí liš-al-šu
o 14 14	mì-nu ša di-bi-šú-u-ni
Reverse
r 1 r 1	UD 28-KAM TA^v ŠÀ	(r 1) I sent him to the king, my lord, on the 28th from Zaddi.
r 2 2	URU.za-ad-di
r 3 3	ina pa-an LUGAL be-lí-ia
r 4 4	ú-se-bi-la-šu

Copyright Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola and the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 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). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.

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SAA 05 241. A Babylonian Asks for Audience (ABL 0522)

SAAo/SAA05 : The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces