SAA 17 076. Keeping Guard in Borsippa (ABL 1313)[via saao/saa17]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL be--[ia]

(1) To the king, [my] lo[rd]: your servant Na[bû-šar-ahhešu], who guards the 'mule house' [at Borsippa. Good health] to the king, [my] lord! [May] the king, my lord, be in [very] good [spirits! My] gua[rd], where the king, [my] lo[rd, appointed me, is well].

o 22

ARAD-ka mdAG*[LUGALŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú]

o 33

šá Éku-dan-[ni i-na BÁR.SIPA.KI]

o 44

i-na-aṣ-ṣa-[ru lu-u šul-mu]

o 55

a-na LUGAL be--[ia ŠÀ-bi]

o 66

šá LUGAL be--ía [ma--diš]

o 77

lu-ú ṭa-ab [šul-mu]

o 88

a-na ma-aṣ-[ṣar-ta-ia]

o 99

a-šar LUGAL be-[-a ip--dan-ni]

o 1010

.šak-nu šá [x x x x]

(10) The prefect who [...]

o 1111

šá ma-aṣ-ṣar-[ti x x x]

(11) of the gua[rd ...]

o 1212

x x [x x x x x]

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rbeginning broken away

r 1'1'

dul-lu ina [x x x x x]

(r 1) work i[n ...]

r 2'2'

ip-pu- [x x x x x]

(r 2) he is/I am doing [...]

r 3'3'

a-na KUG.UD ina [x x x x]

(r 3) for silver i[n ...]

r 4'4'

šá UGU-ḫi x+[x x x x x]

(r 4) which on [...]

r 5'5'

LUGAL a-na ḫi-[ṭi x x x x]

(r 5) [May] the king not [regard it as my] fau[lt].

r 6'6'

ki-i LUGAL be-[-a x x x]

(r 6) If the king, [my] l[ord ...],

r 7'7'

a-du-ú 01.en [x x x x]

(r 7) now one [...]

r 8'8'

šá UGU-ḫi GIŠ*.[x x x šá? LUGAL]

(r 8) which on [... of the king]

r 9'9'

be--ía ul x+[x x x x]

(r 9) my lord not [...].

r 10'10'

a-na-ku a-kan-[na ma-aṣ-ṣar-ta]

(r 10) As for me, I keep [the guard] of the king here.

r 11'11'

šá LUGAL a-na-aṣ-[ṣar x x x]

r 12'12'

i-na KUR-šur.[KI x x x]

(r 12) [...] in Assyria [...]

r 13'13'

un-deš-ši-ru-ši-[na x x x]

(r 13) They left them (f.) [...]

r 14'14'

LUGAL be--a liš-pur* [x x x x]

(r 14) May the king, my lord, send word that they (f.) be sei[zed ...].

r 15'15'

lu-ú ṣa-ab-ta?

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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/P238365/.