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  • SAA 16 138

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

Bibliography

SAA 16, 138

SAA 16 138. Report on Araši and Elam (CT 53 070)[via saao/saa16]

Obverse
o 1o 1

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

(1) T[o] the king, [my lord]: your servants [Nabû-ra'im-nišešu] (and) Salaman[u. Good health t]o the king [my lord]! [May Nabû and] Marduk [bless the king, my lord].

o 22

ARAD-MEŠ-ka m[dPAÁGUN-MEŠ-šú]

o 33

msa-la-ma-nu [lu-u šul-mu]

o 44

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

o 55

[d]PA dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL [be--ia]

o 66

[lik-ru-bu issu]-ri LUGAL be- i-qab-[bi]

(6) [Perh]aps the king, my lord, will sa[y]: "[W]hy [have you not ...] until now?"

o 77

[ma-a a]-ta-a ad-da-kan-ni [x x x]

o 88

[x x x x x]-ka-a-ni mpa-ʾe-e [o]

(8) Pa'e, [the deleg]ate of the land Araš[i, sai]d to us: "[...]

o 99

[.qe]-e-pu ša* KUR.a-ra-še [x]

o 1010

[iq-ṭi]-ba-na-a-ši ma-a x+[x x x]

o 1111

[x x x KUR].NIM.MA-a.a x+[x x x x x]

(11) [... the Ela]mite(s) [...]

o 1212

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

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rbeginning broken away

r 1'1'

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

r 2'2'

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

r 3'3'

[x x x x] an [x x x x x]

r 4'4'

[an-nu]-rig a-na [LUGAL EN-ia]

(r 4) [Now the]n [we] are writin[g] t[o the king, my lord].

r 5'5'

[ni]-is-sap-ra [x x x]

r 6'6'

[a]-du LUGAL be- [x x x x]

(r 6) [Un]til/[Whi]le the king, my lord, [...]

r 7'7'

[x x] li it qi ab? x+[x x x x]

r 8'8'

[x x] DUMU mum-ba-ki-[di-ni]

(r 8) [...] the son of Umban-k[idinni]

r 9'9'

[ina] ITI an-ni-e [x x]

(r 9) [in] this [mont]h [...]

r 10'10'

[x x x]+x URU.de-e-[re x x]

(r 10) [...] the city of De[r ...]

r 11'11'

[x x x]-a ina URU.[x x x x]

(r 11) [...] in the city [...]

r 12'12'

[x x x] a x+[x x x x x]

(Last line destroyed)


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/P313485/.