SAA 19 137. No News Yet from Babylon (CTN 5 p. 52)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [Your servant] Nabû-balassu-iqbi: [I would gladly di]e [for] the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless [the king, my lord]! [Say] to the king, my lord: I have sent [a messenger t]o greet [the king, my lord]. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | (8) [Concerning the ne]ws of Babylon, [I have sen]t [messen]gers to Babylon (but) they [have not com]e back until now. | |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| r 2'2' | [x x x x]-ú | |
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | ||
| r 5'5' | [x x x x]-li | |
| rest uninscribed |
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/P393655/.