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Names

  • SAA 16 023

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Details

  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Esarhaddon.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Administrative Letter

Bibliography

SAA 16, 023

SAA 16 023. (no title) (ABL 0536)[via saao/saa16]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a]-na LUGAL be-li-[ia]

(1) [T]o the king, [my] lord: your [servant] Šamaš-šumu-[ukin]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! May Nabû and Marduk bless the [king, my lord]! May the gr[eat] gods remember [the king, my lord], ve[ry] favourably [indeed...].

o 22

[ARAD]-ka mdGIŠ.NUMU[GI.NA]

o 33

[lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-[-ia]

o 44

dAG u dAMAR.UTU a-[na LUGAL be--ia]

o 55

lik-ru-bu DINGIR-MEŠ x+[x x x x]

o 66

ḫi-is-su- ša [x x x x x]

o 77

a-na SIG₅ ša a-[x x x x]

o 88

li-iḫ-su-su [x x]

Reverse
r 1r 1

ḫi-is-su- [x x x x]

(r 1) A reminder [......]

r 22

ŠÀ-bi pa-[x x x x]

(r 2) my heart [......]

two uninscribed lines

r 33

[x] 30 x+[x x x x x]

(r 3) [...] 30 [......]

r 44

[ina] ŠÀ-bi [x x x x]

(r 4) [...] there [......]

r 55

[lid]-di-nu [x x x x]

(r 5) [let] them give [......]


Adapted from Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere, The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 16), 2002. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P238494/.