SAA 01 133. Blessings and Flatteries (ABL 0216)[via saao/saa01]
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o 1o 1 | (1) The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel, Nabû, Sin and Nergal bless the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | (5) (This is from) your servant Hunnî, an adorer of the king his lord. | |
o 66 | ||
o 77 | (7) All the temples and palaces of Assyria are well; the crown prince Sennacherib is well; all the princes [who are in] Assyria are well; [the king], my lo[rd, can be very gl]ad [indeed]. | |
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
rest (at least 13 lines) broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning (at least 13 lines) broken away | |
r 1'1' | (r 1) May he see the workmanship of the temples of his gods and kiss their beautiful feet; may those (gods) whose temples you have made shine like sunrise, bless the king my lord, and may we, the royal servants, kiss the feet of the king, our lord. | |
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r 10'10' | (r 10) (This is from) your servant Hunnî, an adorer of the king his lord, who every morning and evening continually blesses the king, his lord. | |
r 11'11' | ||
Right | ||
r.e. 12r.e. 12 | ||
r.e. 1313 | ||
r.e. 1414 |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334158/.