SAA 19 137. No News Yet from Babylon (CTN 5 p. 52)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[ARAD-ka ^m]d.AG—TIN-⸢su—iq⸣-bi	(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	[a-na di]-⸢na⸣-an LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 33	[lul-lik] ⸢d⸣.AG u ^dAMAR.UTU
o 44	[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía] ⸢lik⸣-ru-bu
o 55	[um-ma-a] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia-ma⸣
o 66	[LÚ.A—KIN a]-⸢na⸣ šul-mi
o 77	[LUGAL be-lí-ía] ⸢al⸣-tap-ra
o 88	[áš-šú ṭè]-e-mu šá TIN.TIR.KI	(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	[LÚ.A—šip]-ri-MEŠ a-na TIN.TIR.KI
o 1010	[al-tap]-⸢ra⸣ a-di-kan-ni
o 1111	[ul il-li]-⸢ku⸣-ni
	rest broken away	(Break)
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'	[x x x a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL	(r 3) [... t]o the king
r 4'4'	[x x x x]-nu ⸢šá⸣ qa-bal URU	(r 4) [...]... of the centre of the city
r 5'5'	[x x x x]-li	(r 5) [...]...
	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/.