SAA 17 048. Complaints About Landed Property (ABL 0925)[via saao/saa17]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) Your servant Amel-Nabû: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) Didn't the king say to me as follows: "Go, plant, fill the cellars with harvest, and eat under my protection!" Let the king's messenger come here and see how the land of my father, which the king gave back to me, has been made barren by Mannu-ki-U[rbail]. He has indeed burned my grain, my straw and [my] garlic on [...] and (said to me): "Go en[treat] the king! If the king (indeed) ga[ve you] your land, come and tak[e] your property!" | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ni-du-tu ú-šá-lik-šú ina ⸢UGU*⸣ [x x] | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | (17) Now, the king gave me my land [with the following words]: "I shall not choose anything (from it)." But now, as I have nothing left, I shall die. There is no barley left for my nourishment and for my seed grain. If I have sinned, I should have died. Why does the king, my lord, let me live, while Mannu-ki-Urbail is up to destroy me? Verily [...] | |
| o 1818 | ||
| o 1919 | a-du-ú ina la mi-ni a-⸢ma⸣-[ti x x] | |
| o 2020 | a-na a-ka-li-ia ù [o] | |
| o 2121 | ||
| o 2222 | ||
| o 2323 | ||
| o 2424 | ú*-bal-la-ṭa-ni ù [o] | |
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 25b.e. 25 | ||
| b.e. 2626 | ||
| b.e. 2727 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| r 2'2' | [x]+⸢x⸣ [x] É—šu-me-li [ina pa-ni-šú] | |
| r 3'3' | (r 3) Even the land of the governor [...], of 300 horses (and) 12 magnificent chariots befitting his social standing [...] are at his disposal. And the land [..., the pe]ople of Haldi-na[ṣir...] and the men of his protégés are also at his disposal. | |
| r 4'4' | šá 03 me ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x] | |
| r 5'5' | 12 GIŠ.GIGIR-MEŠ šá si-mat ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r 6'6' | ||
| r 7'7' | ⸢LÚ⸣-MEŠ šá mḫal-di—⸢PAB⸣ [x x] | |
| r 8'8' | ||
| r 9'9' | ina pa-ni-šu-ma ina mu-[x x x] | |
| r 10'10' | (r 10) He has not been able to grab (any land) in [...], except the land [...] to the fortress (and) to [...]. | |
| r 11'11' | ||
| r 12'12' | a-na URU.bir-ti a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r 13'13' | (r 13) My eyes are fixed on the king's servants. May the king send (word) and [hand ...] the people of my house and [...] my fields over to Šamaš-aha-iddi[na], so they won't bring (my) entire household to a standstill. | |
| r 14'14' | ||
| r 15'15' | ||
| r 16'16' | ||
| r 17'17' | ||
| 4 lines uninscribed |
Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. 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/P238317/.