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Names

  • SAA 16 090

Numbers

  • CDLI P313565
  • BM —
  • 1883-01-18, 0064
  • CT 53 150
  • SAA 16, 090

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Details

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

Bibliography

SAA 16, 090

SAA 16 090. Outriders for Brick Masons (CT 53 150)[via saao/saa16]

Obverse
obeginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x ša LUGAL be- ]-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'

01-en v.SAG-MEŠ lu-ṣi-a

(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]

o 5'5'

ṭè-e-mu liš-kun-šú-nu

o 6'6'

ù ina UGU .ú-ra-si

o 7'7'

.kal-lap qur-bu

o 8'8'

.kal-lap ma--da

o 9'9'

.kal-lap URU.ub-[x]

o 10'10'

.kal-lap ša É.[GAL]

o 11'11'

.zu-ku [x]

o 12'12'

šum-ma ma-ḫi-ir ina IGI [LUGAL EN-ía]

(Break)

Bottom
b.e. 13'b.e. 13'

ú-x [x x x x x x x x]

b.e. 14'14'

.[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

ku-um ina tak-ri-ma-a-[ti]

(r 3) lest they will tell the king, [my] lord, in the autumn, in Tishri (VII): "The outr[iders] have not come in."

r 44

ina ITI.DU₆ a-na LUGAL EN-[ia]

r 55

iq-ab-bu-ni ma-a .kal-[lap-MEŠ]

r 66

la e-rab-ú-ni

r 77

a-na m-šurPAB-ir a-[na] mda-ni-i

(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 [...].

r 88

LUGAL li-iq-bi .qur-ZAG-MEŠ

r 99

ša MU.IM.MA ina UGU-[ḫi]-šú-nu

r 1010

il-lik-u-ni ina IGI LUGAL EN-ía

r 1111

lu-šá-zi-zu LUGAL ṭè-e-mu

r 1212

[liš]-kun-šú-nu lil-li-ku

r 1313

[x x li]-bu-ku-u-niš-šú-nu

rest broken away


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/.