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


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a]-na LUGAL [be-lí-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[^dPA—ÁG—UN-MEŠ-šú]
o 33	^msa-la-ma-⸢nu⸣ [lu-u šul-mu]
o 44	[a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ia]
o 55	[^d]⸢PA⸣ ^dAMAR.UTU a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí-ia]
o 66	[lik-ru-bu is—su]-ri LUGAL be-lí 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	[LÚ.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]	(11) [... the Ela]mite(s) [...]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning 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 4) [Now the]n [we] are writin[g] t[o the king, my lord].
r 6'6'	[a]-⸢du⸣ LUGAL be-lí [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 6) [Un]til/[Whi]le the king, my lord, [...]
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]	(r 11) [...] in the city [...]
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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/P313485/.