SAA 15 227. Sending a Man to the King (CT 53 632)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] LUGAL be-lí-ía	(1) [To] the king, my lord: your [servant] Šarru-emuranni. [Good hea]lth to my lord!
o 22	[ARAD]-ka ^mMAN—IGI-a-ni
o 33	[lu] ⸢šul⸣-mu a-na be-lí-ia
o 44	[ina UGU ^mx-x-x]-šú-nu	(4) [Concerning ...]šunu [...]
o 55	[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-⸢ni⸣	(4) [Concerning ...]šunu [...]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[(x) x x]-ṣi
r 2'2'	[(x) x x] ni-pi	(r 2) [......] the amount
r 3'3'	[LUGAL be]-⸢lí⸣ liš-al-šú	(r 3) [The king], [my lord], should question him.

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/P314044/.