SAA 18 034. Fragment Concerning Babylonians (CT 54 237)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL dan-⸢nu⸣ [x x x]	(1) [...] the stron[g] king [...]
o 22	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ bi [x x x]	(2) [......]
o 33	[x x x be]-⸢lut⸣-ti-⸢ka⸣ [x x x]	(3) [...] yo[ur lor]dship [...]
o 44	[x x x x]-te a-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ia]	(4) [...] to the king, [my] l[ord],
o 55	[x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-⸢ia⸣ [x x]	(5) [... the k]ing, m[y] lord, [...]
o 66	[x x i^?-dab^?]-bu-bu ina ⸢ŠÀ^?⸣ [x x x]	(6) [... th]ey [spe]ak. In [...]
o 77	[x x x x] ⸢en⸣-na LUGAL be-[lí-a^? x]	(7) [... N]ow the king, [my] lo[rd, ...]
o 88	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ŠÀ GIŠ.⸢MÁ⸣ [x x x]	(8) [...] inside a boa[t ...]
o 99	[x x LÚ].⸢TIN⸣.TIR.KI-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(9) [... the Ba]bylonians [...]
o 1010	[x x x] ⸢um⸣-ma im—ma-⸢ti^*⸣ [x x x]	(10) [... sa]ying: "Whe[n ...]
o 1111	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ep-še-e-⸢ti⸣ [x x x]	(11) [...] deed[s ...]
o 1212	[x x x x]-tu ni-pa-áš-šá-[ru x x x]	(12) [...] we shall und[o ...]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
Right
r.e. 1r.e. 1	[x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x]

Adapted from Frances Reynolds, The Babylonian Correspondence of Esarhaddon and Letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-šarru-iškun from Northern and Central Babylonia (State Archives of Assyria, 18), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2015-16, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P239167/.