SAA 16 090. Outriders for Brick Masons (CT 53 150)[via saao/saa16]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | [x x ša LUGAL be-lí iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni | (1) [... about whom the king, my lord, wro]te to me: "[......] — I hear and obey. |
| o 2'2' | [ma-a x x x x x]-MEŠ-ni | |
| o 3'3' | [x x a]-⸢na?-ku as-sa⸣-nam-me | |
| o 4'4' | (4) Let one of the eunuchs come out and give them orders. And regarding the brick masons, there are many outriders available: the outriders from Ub[...], the outriders of the Pa[lace], (and) the exempt [...]. If it is acceptable to the [king, my lord] | |
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| o 11'11' | LÚ.zu-⸢ku⸣ [x] | |
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| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 13'b.e. 13' | ú-⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. 14'14' | ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r 22 | li-⸢il-li⸣-ku-u-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | (r 2) let them come [...], |
| r 33 | (r 3) lest they will tell the king, [my] lord, in the autumn, in Tishri (VII): "The outr[iders] have not come in." | |
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| r 77 | (r 7) May the king command Aššur-naṣir and Danî that they station in the k[ing] my lord's presence the bodyguards who went to them last year. May the king [giv]e them orders to go (and) [fet]ch them [...]. | |
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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/P313565/.