SAA 17 164. My Lord Should not Believe Calumnies about me (CT 54 246)[via saao/saa17]
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o 1o 1 | (1) [Your servant Šu]zubu: I would gladly die [for the gov]ernor, my lord! Say to my lord: I am herewith sending [my ta]blet as a greet[ing to the gov]ernor, [my lord]. | |
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o 33 | ||
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o 55 | ⸢be⸣-lí-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
o 66 | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] ⸢pa⸣-ni | |
o 77 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] x | |
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Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x] ⸢x x⸣ dib-bi šá UN-MEŠ-⸢ia⸣ | (r 1) As to the what my people have said, the governor knows that they are spreading lies. Perhaps they will write to my lord about a certain thing that concerns me or about me in person. The governor should not believe them! |
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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/P239177/.