SAA 10 173. The Governor has Taken my Field (ABL 0421) [from diviners][via saao/saa10]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a]-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dAMAR.UTU—MU—PAB
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	^dAG ^dAMAR.UTU
o 55	a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu
o 66	AD-šú ša LUGAL EN-ia	(6) The father of the king, my lord, gave me 10 homers of cultivated land in Halahhu. For 14 years I had the usufruct of the land, and nobody disputed it with me. (But) now the governor of Barhalzi has come and mistreated the farmer, plundered his house and appropriated my land.
o 77	10 ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN ina KUR.ḫa-làḫ-ḫi
o 88	it-ta-na 14 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ
o 99	A.ŠÀ a-ta-kal
o 1010	me-me-ni is-si-ia
o 1111	la id-di-bu-ub
o 1212	ú-ma-a LÚ.EN.NAM
o 1313	la KUR.bar-ḫal-zi it-tal-ka
o 1414	LÚ.ENGAR^* iḫ-te-si
o 1515	É-su im-ta-šá-aʾ
o 1616	A.ŠÀ ip-tu-ag
o 1717	LUGAL be-lí ú-da	(17) The king, my lord, knows that I am a poor man, that I keep the watch of the king, my lord, and am guilty of no negligence within the palace. Now I have been deprived of my field. I have turned to the king; may the king, my lord, do me justice, may I not die of hunger!
o 1818	ki-i muš-ke-nu
o 1919	a-na-ku-u-ni
o 2020	ma-ṣar-tú
Reverse
r 1r 1	ša LUGAL EN-ia
r 22	a-na-ṣar-u-ni
r 33	<$ina$> ŠÀ-bi É.GAL
r 44	la a-ši-ṭu-u-ni
r 55	ú-ma-a A.ŠÀ pe-ga-ku
r 66	LUGAL at-ta-ḫar
r 77	LUGAL be-lí
r 88	de-e-ni le-pu-uš
r 99	ina bu-bu-ti lu la a-mu-at

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/P334289/.