SAA 15 200. Merodach-Baladan Contacts the King of Elam (CT 53 186)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x x]-ru
o 2'2'	[x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ TA^v
o 3'3'	[x x x]-su UD-mu UD 16-KÁM	(3) They will be [in Ca]lah on the 16th day. [The ... ...]ed the work, (but) they have finished their [w]ork.
o 4'4'	[ina URU].⸢kal⸣-ḫa šu-nu
o 5'5'	[x x-MEŠ] dul-lu
o 6'6'	[ú-ta^?]-li-i
o 7'7'	⸢dul⸣-la-šu-nu ig-da-ma-ru
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(r 1) [Concerning wh]at the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The son of Yakin has written to the king of Elam: 'The king of Assyria [is ma]rching aga[inst me]. You, [... a messeng]er [...]'"
r 22	[ma]-a DUMU—^mia-ki-nu
r 33	[a]-na LUGAL KUR.NIM.⸢MA⸣
r 44	⸢i⸣-sa-par ma-a [o o]
r 55	LUGAL KUR—aš-šur ina ⸢UGU⸣-[ḫi-ía il]-lak-an-ni
r 66	[ma]-⸢a⸣ at-⸢ta⸣ [LÚ^v.A]—⸢KIN⸣
r 77	[x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣
r 88	[x x x x x x x]
r 99	[x x x x x x x]
r 1010	[x x x x x x] ⸢šu⸣
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P313601/.