SAA 01 124. Fending off Accusations (ABL 0190)[via saao/saa01]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [To] the king, my lord: your servant Kiṣir-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) As to the houses of the recruitment officers, about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The houses are already built, you are deceiving me in order to give them to your servants!" — | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | (8) as if I did not tell the truth to the king, my lord! Let a royal eunuch who will tell the king my lord the truth come and have a look at these houses of the recruitment officers! If they are already built, let him go and tell it to the king, my lord, and let the king, my lord, hold his report to my discredit and say: "Why do you not tell me the truth?" | |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | (18) As to the houses of the servants of Šep-Aššur about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why have you taken their houses and given them to your servants?" | |
| o 1919 | ||
| o 2020 | ||
| o 2121 | (21) When Šep-Aššur went to Ṣimirra, his servants went with him, so I took their houses and gave them to the Marqasians. Let Šep-Aššur rule as governor over there, but his servants [must not have] houses in Dur-Šarru[ken. Why] should I not give them to the Marqasians, [the king my lord]'s subjects? | |
| o 2222 | ||
| o 2323 | ||
| o 2424 | ||
| o 2525 | ||
| o 2626 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) [Did I say] to the king, my lord: "Šep-Aššur did not build a house all the while he was h[ere]"? Now, [Šep-Aššur] did build a house as governor of D[ur-Šarruk]en; I was appointed in his stead, so I entered [his house] and took up residence in it. | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | at-tu-ši-bi a-na [x x x x x] | (r 10) To [......] for governorship [......]. His servants [went] with him, and their [...] should [...] with him; the king's servants [......] |
| r 1111 | a-na LÚv.NAM-ú-[te x x x x] | |
| r 1212 | LÚv.ARAD-MEŠ-šú i-⸢se⸣-[e-šú x x x]-šú*-nu* | |
| r 1313 | i-si-šú [lu]-ú i*-[x x x x LÚv].⸢ARAD*⸣-MEŠ | |
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | lu-⸢šal*⸣-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| r 1616 | É-MEŠ [x x x x x x x x]-ka | |
| r 1717 | TAv EN* [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r 1818 | an-na-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x LÚv.mar-ḫa]-⸢sa⸣-a.a | (r 18) [The Marqas]ians, servants [of the king, my lord], should live here [...]. |
| r 1919 | ||
| rest uninscribed |
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/P334135/.