SAA 21 043. Sending Bel-ibni to the Sealand (650-Il-5) (ABL 0289)[via saao/saa21]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-mat LUGAL a-na LÚ.KUR.tam-tim-a-a	(1) The king's word to the Sealanders, old and young, my servants: I am well; you can be glad.
o 22	LÚ.AB.BA-MEŠ u TUR-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ-ía
o 33	DI-mu a.a-ši ŠÀ-ba-ku-nu
o 44	lu-u ṭa-ab-ku-nu-ši
o 55	a-mu-ra en-na ak-ka-a-ʾi	(5) See now how, because I hold you in good regard and have dissociated you from the crime of Nabû-bel-šumati, the whore of Menanu, I am now sending you my servant Bel-ibni, who belongs to my entourage, to (assume your) leadership.
o 66	ina ŠÀ šá IGI.2-a.a ina UGU-ḫi-ku-nu
o 77	ù la—pa-an ḫi-iṭ ^m^d+AG—EN—MU-MEŠ
o 88	MÍ.KAR.KID šá ^mme-na-nu
o 99	ap-ru-su-ku-nu-ši a-du-ú
o 1010	^m^d+EN—DÙ ARAD-a u LÚ.GUB.BA—pa-ni-ía
o 1111	a-na a-lik—pa-nu-ti ana UGU-ḫi-ku-nu
o 1212	al-tap-ra at-tu-nu	(12) As for you, [do] correspondingly in the matter which is good to me and which is within the [...] the Seala[nders ......]
o 1313	ap—pít-tim-ma ina ŠÀ a-mat
o 1414	šá ina UGU-ḫi-ia ⸢ṭa-ba-at⸣
o 1515	šá ina ŠÀ-bi šá [x x x x]
o 1616	LÚ.tam-⸢tim⸣-[ú^?-a x x x x]
o 1717	⸢la^*⸣ [x x x x x x x x x]	(17) [......]
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Reverse
rr	one line broken away	(one line broken away)
r 11	dul^*-[x x x x x x x x]	(r 1) [......]
r 22	tam-ma-ra né-me-⸢il^*⸣-[ku-nu]	(r 2) You will see whether there is no profi[t] for servants who promote the wish of their lords, and what rewards and favours you will have from me after I have sent my army and it has done its job.
r 33	ša ARAD-MEŠ šá ṣi-bu-[tu]
r 44	šá EN-MEŠ-šu-nu iš-šu-nu
r 55	ia-aʾ-nu-ú áš-šá ana-ku
r 66	LÚ.e-mu-qé-ia al-tap-ra
r 77	i-tep-šu at-tu-ku-nu
r 88	mi-nu-u dum-qí-ku-nu
r 99	u MUN-ku-nu i-na IGI-ía
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r 1010	ITI.GUD UD 05-KÁM	(r 10) Month of Iyyar (II), 5th day, eponym year of Bel-Harran-šadû'a (650).
r 1111	lim-mu ^mEN—KASKAL—KUR-u-a
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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/P393821/.