SAA 17 206. Greetings (CT 54 592)[via saao/saa17]


Obverse
11	ṭup-pi ^m^d[x x x]	(1) Tablet of [NN] to Nabû-šu[ma-iškun]. I am herewith sending my tablet as a gre[eting to my lord].
22	a-na ^m^dAG—⸢MU⸣—[GAR-un]
33	ṭup-pi a-na šul-[mi-ka al-tap-ra]
44	ṭè-e-mu šá be-⸢lí⸣-[ia al-te-me]	(4) [I heard] the news of [my] lord and became very glad.
55	ma-aʾ-diš ḫa-ma-⸢ka⸣ [x x x]	(4) [I heard] the news of [my] lord and became very glad.
66	i-na ku-mi-ka [x x x x]	(6) [...] in your place
77	ù a-na ARAD-šú ú-[x x x]	(7) and for his servant [...]
88	ul ^dEN.LÍL ki-i—⸢ma⸣-[de-e]	(8) Has not Enlil in an effus[ive way ...]
99	šá LUGAL be-el-ka ul [x x x]	(9) whom the king, your lord, not [...]
1010	[x] UD-us-su ^m[x x x x x]	(10) [...] daily [...]
1111	[x x]+⸢x⸣ ù ⸢bu⸣-[x x x x x]	(11) [...] and [...]
1212	[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]	(11) [...] and [...]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	be-lí-šú a-di šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]	(r 1) of his lord, until [...].

Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. 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/P237514/.