SAA 17 016. Joining the Royal Entourage (ABL 0838)[via saao/saa17]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | [ṭup]-pi mdAG—EN—MU-MEŠ ⸢ù⸣ mx+[x x x x] | (1) [Tab]let of Nabû-bel-šumate and [NN] to the king, their lord. Good health to the king, [our] lo[rd]! |
o 22 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-lí-šú-nu lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-[lí-ni] | |
o 33 | (3) The king, our lord, has done us a favour; good deeds that not (even) a father has done to his son [...]: you have made us enter yo[ur] paternal house. | |
o 44 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-a-ni i-tep-šá-an-ni a-na É—AD-⸢ka⸣ [(x x)] | |
o 55 | (5) And when Keni heard about [this favour] that you did to us, he [...] all the lands (and) [...]ed the king, our lord. | |
o 66 | šá te-pu-šá-an-na-ši KUR.KUR gab-⸢bi⸣ [x x x] | |
o 77 | ki-i iš-mu-ú LUGAL be-lí-a-ni it-ta-[x-x] | |
o 88 | (8) Now then, the men [...] who are with Ana-Nabû-taklak [...]. | |
o 99 | šá it-ti ma-na—dAG—⸢tak⸣-lak x [x x x x] | |
o 1010 | ṭè-en-šú-nu i-di KUR.[x x x x x x x x] | (10) He knows their news. The land [...] |
o 1111 | ⸢šu⸣-[x] ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x] a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
o 1212 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | ši-[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
rest broken away |
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/P239161/.