SAA 01 128. Receiving a ‘Shipment’ of People from Guzana (ABL 0167)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ina-šar-Bel-allak. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the gods residing in Dur-Šarruken give the king my lord length of days!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mina—IM—EN—a-lak
o 33	lu-ú šul-mu a-na MAN EN-ía
o 44	^dPA ^dMES a-na MAN EN-ía lik-ru^*-bu
o 55	DINGIR-MEŠ a-ši-bu-te URU.BÀD—MAN—GIN
o 66	UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ a-na MAN EN-ía lid-di-nu
o 77	UN-MEŠ GUD-MEŠ ša TA^v	(7) I went as far as Šabirešu to meet the people and oxen that were brought to me from Guzana; I checked them, received them, and provided them with shelter. Some of them were missing:
o 88	URU.gu-za-na na-ṣu-ni-ni
o 99	a-di URU.ša-bi-ri-šú
o 1010	ina ir-ti-šú-nu at-ta-lak
o 1111	a-ta-šar a-ta-ḫa-ár
o 1212	GIŠ.MI ú-sa-aṣ-bit
o 1313	i-ba-ši LAL-e ina ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣
o 1414	^mki-na-a LÚ^v.MÁ.LAḪ₄ KUŠ.maš-kir^* 03 ZI	(14) Kinâ, a wineskin-raft man, three persons; Sandapî, a vegetable gardener, three persons; Hulî, a farmer, five persons; Kuzâ, a belt-maker, four persons — in all 15 persons missing from my writing-board.
o 1515	^msa-an-da—pi-i LÚ^v.NU.GIŠ—ur-qi 03 ZI
o 1616	^mḫu-li-i LÚ^v.ENGAR 05 ZI
o 1717	^mku-za-a LÚ^v.šá—sa-ga-te-šú^* 04 ZI
o 1818	PAB 15 ZI LAL-e ša GIŠ.ZU-ia
o 1919	TA^v ŠÀ URU.šá-bi-ri-šú	(19) I sent the bodyguard from Šabirešu back to Guzana for them, telling him: "Go and get the rest of the people, and come and bring them to me!"
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b.e. 20b.e. 20	LÚ^v.qur-bu-tú ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu
b.e. 2121	a-na URU.gu-za-na <$ur$>
b.e. 2222	ú-sa-ḫi-ir
Reverse
r 1r 1	nu-uk a-lik re-eḫ-te UN-MEŠ
r 22	i-ṣa al-ka bi-la
r 33	ina šad-dàq-diš LUGAL EN ina KÁ.DINGIR	(r 3) Last year, (when) the king my lord was in Babylon, they urged me to give a shipment of 200 reed altars for the work of the Nabû temple; now Aha-lurši has told me to make available another 200 reed altars.
r 44	iḫ-tar-du-u-ni šá-az-bu-su
r 55	ša 02 me GI.DU₈-MEŠ
r 66	a-na dul-li šá É—^dPA a-ti-din
r 77	ú-ma-a ^mPAB—TUKU-[ši^*]
r 88	iq-ṭí-bi-⸢a⸣ ma-a ša 02 me
r 99	GI.DU₈-MEŠ re-e-šú i-ši
r 1010	an-nu-rig ^mSUḪUŠ—KÁ.DINGIR	(r 10) Ubru-Babili is at the moment in the presence of the king, my lord; let them ask him; if he is going to give, then I too will give. What does the king my lord say?
r 1111	ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ía liš-ú-lu
r 1212	šum-ma šu-u i-da-an
r 1313	a-na-ku la-din-ni^*
r 1414	mi-i-nu ša LUGAL EN
r 1515	i-qa-bu-ú-ni
r 1616	02 qa NINDA-MEŠ 02 qa KAŠ-MEŠ ša LÚ^v.MAŠ.MAŠ	(r 16) Two liters of bread and two liters of beer for the exorcist; one liter of bread and one liter of beer for the lahhinu; in all, six liters of bread and beer being the surplus of the daily offerings of the Nabû temple.
r 1717	01 qa NINDA-MEŠ 01 qa KAŠ-MEŠ ša LÚ^v.láḫ-ḫi-ni
r 1818	PAB 06 qa NINDA-MEŠ KAŠ-MEŠ gi-nu-u
r 1919	ut-ru šá É—^dAG
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t.e. 20t.e. 20	LUGAL EN lu ú-di	(t.e. 20) The king, my lord, should know this; it is not available for any (other) purpose.
t.e. 2121	a-na me-me-ni la ra-qa

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, 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/P334113/.