SAA 13 019. Recalcitrant Assyrian Shepherds (ABL 0726)[via saao/saa13]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-[na] LUGAL EN-[ia]	(1) [To the ki]ng, [my] lord: your servant, Dadî. [Go]od health to the king, [my] lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mda-di-[i]
o 33	[lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-[ia]
o 44	[^d]PA ^dMES a-na LUGAL
o 55	⸢EN⸣-ia lik-ru-bu
o 66	⸢TA^v⸣ SAG.DU ITI a-du a-kan-ni	(6) From the beginning of the month until now the shepherd responsible for the cultic meals has refused to go for his tax collection. I myself am buying sheep from the market (lit. 'The city gate') and fattening them.
o 77	⸢LÚ^v⸣.SIPA nap-ti-ni a-na
o 88	⸢pi⸣-ri-šú la-a i-ma-gúr
o 99	⸢la⸣ i-la-ak a-na-ku
o 1010	UDU-MEŠ TA^v ŠÀ-bi KÁ.GAL
o 1111	a-la-qi ú-šá-kal
o 1212	LÚ^v.SIPA ša ina É DUMU-MEŠ	(12) The shepherd who serves in the house of the [harus]pices also did [not] come [for the tax collection. ...he has not t]aken the sheep [...], therefore I [cannot] give them.
o 1313	[ḪAL]-MEŠ-ni i-za-zu-u-ni
Bottom
b.e. 14b.e. 14	[a-na pi-ri la] i-li-ka-ma
b.e. 1515	[x x x x]-ma UDU-MEŠ
Reverse
r 1r 1	[x x la] ⸢il⸣-qi ina ŠÀ-bi
r 22	[la] a-dan^an an-nu-ti	(r 2) (If) these people, who are Assyr[ians], refuse to fear the [king], my lord, how will foreign[ers] behave [towards] the king, my lord?
r 33	[DUMU-MEŠ] ⸢KUR⸣—aš-šur-ma la-a i-ma-gúr
r 44	[LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li la i-pa-lu-ḫu
r 55	[DUMU-MEŠ] KUR—KÚR a-ke-e
r 66	[a-na] LUGAL EN-ia i-lu-ku
r 77	[is]—⸢su⸣-ri LUGAL be-li	(r 7) [Per]haps the king, my lord, [will s]ay: "Where [are th]ey from?" — Arbailaiu and Šamaš-abu-uṣur are from Luddin-ilu; [...]-aplu-eriba is from Salammê. [The ki]ng, my lord, [should call] his servants to account. Otherwise [......]
r 88	[i-qa]-⸢bi⸣ ma-a TA^v a-a-ak
r 99	[šu]-⸢nu⸣ ^marba-ìl-a-a
r 1010	[^m^d]⸢UTU⸣—AD—PAB ša URU.lud-din—DINGIR
r 1111	[^m^dx]—A—SU ša URU.sa-lam-me-e
r 1212	⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li ARAD-MEŠ-šú
r 1313	[lu]-⸢ba^?⸣-ʾi ú-la-a
Right
r.e. 14r.e. 14	[x x]-ḫu-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ pa	(r.e. 14) (Rest destroyed)
r.e. 1515	[x x x] mu u [x x x]

Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, 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/P334515/.