SAA 01 147. The Petition of the City Rulers (ABL 0526)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ni	(1) To the king, our lord: your servants the city-rulers who are doing the king's work in Milqia.
o 22	LÚ^v.ARAD-MEŠ-ka
o 33	LÚ^v.EN—URU-MEŠ
o 44	ša ina URU.mil-qi-a
o 55	dul-li LUGAL e-pa-šú-u-ni
o 66	ša LUGAL EN-ni	(6) As to what the king wrote to us: "Finish your work it while it is supervised" — we will do what the king our lord wrote to us and deliver it to the king our lord, but the work is a great burden on us.
o 77	iš-pu-ra-na-ši-ni
o 88	ma-a a-di ḫar-da-ni
o 99	ma-a ep-ša ga-me-ra
o 1010	ša LUGAL EN-ni
o 1111	iš-pu-ra-na-ši-ni
o 1212	né-pa-áš a-na LUGAL
o 1313	EN-ni :" ni-da-na
o 1414	dul-lu ina UGU-ni
o 1515	da-a-na :" a—dan-niš
Reverse
r 1r 1	TA IGI LÚ^v.kal-la-pa-ni	(r 1) What with the kallapus and the trackers, they do not allow us to do the king's work.
r 22	TA IGI LÚ^v.UŠ—kib-si-a-ni
r 33	⸢la^⸣-a^ ú-ra-mu-na-ši
r 44	dul-li LUGAL
r 55	la-a né-pa-áš
r 66	ú-ma-a LUGAL EN-ni	(r 6) We are now petitioning the king our lord to release us so that we can perform the king's work. We shall repay our debt as soon as we are back in our country.
r 77	ni-taḫ-ra lu-ra-mu-na-ši
r 88	⸢dul^*⸣-li LUGAL
r 99	⸢né^*⸣-pu-uš
r 1010	ki-ma ina ma-ti-ni
r 1111	ni-tal-ak
r 1212	ḫa-bu-li-ni
r 1313	nu-šal-li-me

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/P334359/.