SAA 19 037. Guard of Riblah (CTN 5 p. 161)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-ahu-iddina. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) The chief eunuch of my lord brought me into Riblah and impressed upon me regarding the watch over Riblah: "Half of the pack animals should enter Riblah whereas the other half should enter Qadeš." | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | (12) Aini-El has gone and ap[peal]ed to the commander-in-chief. The messenger of [NN] has broug[ht] m[e] a letter of the commander-in-chief from Ri[bl]a[h ......] | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | LÚv.A—šip-ri ⸢ša⸣ m⸢d⸣[x x x x] e-gir-tú | |
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | TAv ⸢URU⸣.ra-⸢ab-le⸣-[e x x x]-a-ni | |
| o 1717 | ||
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ⸢ú⸣-[x x x x a-na] | (r 1) [There is] water and oil [for] half of the [men] but n[ot] for the other half. |
| r 2'2' | ||
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | ||
| r 5'5' | (r 5) If the king, my lord, c[ommands]: "Let them buy and eat thei[r] own food," then let them buy and eat, (but) the king, my lord, should know (how things are). | |
| r 6'6' | ||
| r 7'7' | ||
| r 8'8' | ||
| r 9'9' | ||
| r 10'10' | (r 10) The king, my lord, knows that the towns into which I have brought pack animals are in the middle of the desert. Who can stand guard, whether over the pack animals or in my presence? | |
| r 11'11' | ||
| r 12'12' | ||
| r 13'13' | ||
| r 14'14' | ||
| r 15'15' | ||
| r 16'16' | ||
| r 17'17' | ||
| r 18'18' | ||
| r 19'19' | (r 19) The guard of Riblah is loose. The king, my lord, should know (this). If the king, my lord, commands, I shall release [the ser]vants of the king and I shall keep with m[y] chariot [the guard wh]ich the king entrusted to me. | |
| r 20'20' | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 21r.e. 21 | ||
| r.e. 2222 | ||
| r.e. 2323 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 | [LÚv].⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ ša LUGAL lu-ra-me a-na-ku ina GIŠ.GIGIR-⸢ía*⸣ | |
| e. 22 |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. 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/P393617/.