SAA 21 023. Longer Version of No. 22 (ABL 0543)[via saao/saa21]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-⸢bat⸣ [LUGAL a-na ^m^dPA—GÁL-ši]	(1) [The king's] wor[d to Nabû-ušabši]:
o 22	ina [UGU x x x x ša taš-pur-an-ni]	(2) Conc[erning ... about which you wrote to me], "[Why has the king] remo[ved ... ?]"
o 33	⸢ma^*⸣-[a x x x x x x x LUGAL]
o 44	ul-[li ki-i] šá^* ⸢TA^v^*⸣ [re-e-še]	(4) I w[ro]te to you [a]s from [the beginning]: "You and the g[overnors], stay and work (together), and bring food to me." I w[ro]te to you [a]s from [the beginning]: ''You and the g[overnors], stay and work (together), and bring food to me." Did you not hear th[us]? . Now w[hy] did you say, "What is my fault?" It is not your fault! It is the fault of your colleagues, the governors whom I keep sending but who do not come, stay and work with you!
o 55	as-⸢sa⸣-[par]-ak-⸢ka⸣
o 66	mu-uk at^*-tú-nu u LÚ.[NAM-MEŠ]
o 77	i-ti-is-sa dul-lu ep-[šá]
o 88	NINDA-MEŠ iṣ-ṣa-a-ni ak—⸢an⸣-[ni-i]
o 99	la taš-me-a ú-ma-a a-na [mì-i-ni]
o 1010	taq-bi ma-a mì-i-nu ḫi-ṭa-a.a
o 1111	la-a ḫi-ṭa-a-ka šú-u ḫi-iṭ-ṭu
o 1212	šá ki-na-ta-te-ka LÚ.NAM-MEŠ
o 1313	šá a-šap-par-áš-šá-nu-u-ni
o 1414	la il-lak-u-nin-ni is-si^-ku^-nu
o 1515	la ⸢iz-za-zu⸣-u-ni dul-lu la e-pa-šú-ni
o 1616	[u ina UGU šá] ⸢taq⸣-bu-u-ni	(16) [As to what you s]aid, "[May the king not ab]andon [Ur, and may the Gur]asimmu [not get lost to the king]! What else can be done? Let me do it!" — [did I not send the governor] of Mazamua and the prefects, did they not keep watch with you, did they [not] get weak and [die] for your defence?
o 1717	[ma-a LUGAL la ú]-⸢ram⸣-ma
o 1818	[ŠEŠ.UNUG.KI u LÚ.gúr]-⸢a^*-sim⸣
o 1919	[TA^v ŠU.2 LUGAL la el-li-ú]
o 2020	[a-ke-e aḫ—ḫur ep-pu-šú]
o 2121	[ana-ku le-pu-uš]
Reverse
r 1r 1	[la áš-pu-ra LÚ.EN.NAM]
r 22	[KUR.za-mu-a LÚ.GAR-ME]
r 33	[KI-ku-nu la iṣ-ṣu-ru]
r 44	[la] e-ni^*-[šú-u^? la me-e-tú]
r 55	ina UGU EN.NUN-⸢ku⸣-nu ki-i	(r 5) When I saw that they were weakening and dying, I sent orders to release them, (but) did I not appoint with you the governors of Lahiru and Arrapha?
r 66	e-mur-u-ni e-ni-šu-u-ni
r 77	me-tú-u-ni as-sa-par ap-ta-ṭar-šú-nu
r 88	LÚ.EN.NAM URU.la-ḫi-ri ù
r 99	LÚ.EN.NAM URU.arrap-ḫa
r 1010	is-si-ku-nu la ap-qid^* u ú-ma-a	(r 10) And now, even before you wrote me, I have sent the treasurer Aššur-gimilli-tere with the army. Do whatever is opportune to do, be it to block the canal or to [subjug]ate those people.
r 1111	ki-i ud-din-na la ta-šap-par-an-ni
r 1212	^maš-šur—ŠU—GUR-ra LÚ.IGI.DUB u e-muq-qi
r 1313	is-si-šú as-sa-par mì-i-nu šá a-na e-pa-še
r 1414	DÙG.GA-u-ni ep-šá BE-ma ÍD.ḫar-ru sik-ra
r 1515	šúm-ma UN-MEŠ am-mu-te kub-sa
r 1616	u id—da-at e-gír-te šá taš-pur-an-[ni]	(r 16) In accordance with the letter which you sent, Bel-etir and Arbayu, the cohort commander, are bringing horses with them, and they will stay and work wi[th you].
r 1717	^m^dEN—KAR-ir ^mar-ba-a.a
r 1818	LÚ.GAL—ki-ṣir ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ
r 1919	ina ŠU.2-šú-nu na-aṣ-ṣu-u-ni
r 2020	li-iz-zi-zu is-[si-ku-nu]
r 2121	dul-lu le-[pu-šu]

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Ashurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, 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/P393780/.