SAA 10 176. A Moment’s Relief, Please (ABL 0181) [from diviners][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ni	(1) To the king, our lord: your servants Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Naṣiru and Aqaraya. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord!
o 22	ARAD-MEŠ-ka
o 33	^m^dAMAR.UTU—MU—PAB
o 44	^mna-ṣi-ru ^ma-qar-a.a
o 55	^dAG ^dAMAR.UTU
o 66	a-na LUGAL EN-ni
o 77	lik-ru-bu
o 88	dul-li-ni	(8) We have rites to perform in the qirsu. Let the king, our lord, give an order to Sasî (that) they should let us go. Nobody will release us, and we cannot go out.
o 99	ina ŠÀ-bi qi-ir-si
o 1010	i-ba-áš-ši
o 1111	LUGAL EN-ni
o 1212	a-na ^msa-si-⸢i^*⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	ṭè-e-mu
r 22	liš-ku-un
r 33	lu-⸢še-ṣu⸣-na-ši
r 44	me-me-ni
r 55	la ú-ram-ma-na-ši
r 66	la nu-ṣa
	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, 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/P334126/.