SAA 05 163. Settling a Complaint by the Augurs (ABL 0410)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL EN-ia

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Upaq-Šamaš. Good health to the king, my lord!

o 22

ARAD-ka mú-paqdšá-maš

o 33

lu-u DI-mu

o 44

a-na LUGAL EN-ia

o 55

ina UGU v.šáEN.NUN

(5) As to the guard with the augurs, about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "He should be tried in your presence, and he must give back whatever he took from the augurs"

o 66

ša TAv v.da-gílMUŠEN-MEŠ

o 77

ša LUGAL be-

o 88

-pur-an-ni

o 99

ma-a ina IGI-ka

o 1010

lu-uk-ta-ti-ni

o 1111

ma-a -i-nu

o 1212

ša TAv IGI v.da-gílMUŠEN-MEŠ

o 1313

i-šu-u-ni

Bottom
b.e. 14b.e. 14

lu-u-sa-ḫi-ri

b.e. 1515

lid-din

Reverse
r 1r 1

a-sa--la

(r 1) I have carried out a thorough investigation; he has taken nothing from them, [[though they complained about him]].

r 22

ú-ta-ṣi-ṣi

r 33

me-me-ni <$TAv pa*-ni*-šú*$>

r 44

TAv pa-ni-šú-nu

r 55

la i-ši*

r 66

<$ina UGU-ḫi-šú i*-du*-bu-bu*$>

r 77

ú-ma-a : a-ki ša LUGAL

(r 7) Now, I have kept the reserve guard in their service, as the king, my lord, commanded; the other one has gone back to his garrison.

r 88

EN : iq-bu-u-ni

r 99

v.šáEN.NUN ur-ki-iu-u

r 1010

ina IGI-šú-nu

r 1111

ak-ta-la

r 1212

am--iu-u

r 1313

a-na EN.NUN-šú

r 1414

i-ta-ta-ka


Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334281/.