SAA 15 004. Physicians for the King; Inscriptions for a Temple in Der (ABL 0157)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-duri. [Good] health to the king, my lord!
o 22	⸢ARAD⸣-ka ^m^d15—du-ri
o 33	[lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	[ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ^m^dPA—MU—AŠ	(4) [Concerni]ng Nabû-šumu-iddina and Nabû-eriba, the physicians [about whom I sp]oke to the king, my lord, now then I am sending them [care of] my messenger to the [kin]g my lord's presence. Let them enter the king my lord's [pres]ence, and let the king my lord speak with them. Truly, I have not disclosed nor told them where the king, my lord, is sending them.
o 55	[^m^d]PA—SU LÚ^v.A.ZU-MEŠ
o 66	[ša] a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 77	[aq]-bu-u-ni an-nu-rig
o 88	[ina ŠU.2] LÚ^v.A—KIN-e-a ina pa-an
o 99	⸢LUGAL^*⸣ be-lí-ía a-sap-ra-šú-nu
o 1010	[ina pa]-⸢an⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 1111	le-ru-bu LUGAL be-lí
o 1212	i-si-šú-nu lid-bu-bu
o 1313	ke-e-tu a-na-ku
o 1414	la ú-bar-ri
o 1515	la a-qa-ba-áš-šú-nu
o 1616	bé-et LUGAL be-lí i-šap-par-šá-nu-ni
o 1717	^m^dUTU—EN—PAB	(17) Šamaš-belu-uṣur wrote to me from Der: "Should we really not put any inscriptions in the walls of the temple?" I am now writing to the king, my lord: let one inscription be written and sent to me (as a model), and let them write the rest according to it and put them in the walls of the temple.
o 1818	TA^v URU.de-ri i-sap-ra
o 1919	ma-a muš-šá-ra-ni-i
o 2020	la-áš-šú ina ŠÀ É.SIG₄-MEŠ
Bottom
b.e. 21b.e. 21	ša É—DINGIR la niš-kun
Reverse
r 1r 1	ú-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
r 22	a-sap-ra 01-en muš-šá-ru-u
r 33	liš-ṭu-ru lu-še-bíl-u-ni
r 44	ina pi-it-ti re-ḫu-ti
r 55	liš-ṭu-ru ina ŠÀ-bi É.SIG₄-MEŠ
r 66	ša É—DINGIR liš-ku-nu
r 77	A.AN-MEŠ ma-aʾ-da	(r 7) It has rained abundantly and the crops are fine. The king, my lord, can be glad.
r 88	a—dan-niš i-ta-lak
r 99	BURU₁₄-MEŠ de-e-qe
r 1010	ŠÀ-bi ša LUGAL be-lí-ía
r 1111	lu-u DÙG.GA

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334103/.