SAA 15 024. Dispute over Ownership of Towns and Lands (ABL 0168)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dAG—EN—GIN
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(4) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why have you appropriated towns and fields of Il-yada' in the province of Arrapha and in Šamaš-naṣir?" — what towns of his have I taken in the province of Arrapha?
o 55	ma-a a-ta-a URU-MEŠ A.ŠÀ-MEŠ
o 66	ša ^mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ ša ina NAM-at
o 77	URU.arrap-ḫa ù ša ina URU.^dšá-maš—PAB-ir
o 88	taš-ši a.a-ú-ti URU-MEŠ-šú
o 99	ša ina NAM-at URU.arrap-ḫa áš-šu-u-ni
o 1010	ina UGU URU.^dšá-maš—PAB-ir	(10) As to Šamaš-naṣir, did I not appeal to the king, my lord, that it be given to him? The king, my lord, (however) gave Šamaš-naṣir to me, saying: "[Gi]ve (him) a town in its stead." The town I gave him lies right [a]head of his city. Is Šamaš-naṣir (as much) [at] my disposal? And he is appropriating its villages!
o 1111	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía la aḫ-ḫur
o 1212	nu-uk li-di-nu-niš-šú
o 1313	LUGAL be-lí URU.^dšá-maš—PAB-ir
o 1414	⸢it⸣-tan-na ma-a URU ina ku-mu-uš-šú
o 1515	[di]-ni URU ša ad-din-áš-šu-un-ni
o 1616	[ina] re-eš URU-šú šá-ki-in
o 1717	[URU].^dšá-maš—na-ṣe-⸢e^*-re⸣
o 1818	[ina] pa-né-e-a ù URU.⸢ŠE^*⸣-MEŠ-šú
o 1919	[šu]-ú i-na-áš-ši
o 2020	[šum]-⸢ma⸣ LUGAL be-lí i-qab-bi	(20) [I]f the king, my lord, commands, I will choose [a town], and [he can g]o and enter it, (and) re[turn th]is [town].
o 2121	[URU] ⸢la^*⸣-mur ina ŠÀ-bi
o 2222	[lil]-⸢lik⸣ le-ru-ub
Bottom
b.e. 23b.e. 23	[URU an]-⸢ni^⸣-i lu-sa^-⸢ḫir^*⸣
b.e. 2424	[x x x x x x x]
Reverse
rr	first line broken away	(Break)
r 22	[x x x x x a-na-ku] ù šu-u	(r 2) [... Let me] and him [... and ple]ad our cases in the presence of the king, my lord, [and let] the king decide between us.
r 33	[x x x x x] ina IGI LUGAL EN-ía
r 44	[ni]-⸢id^⸣-bu^-ub LUGAL ina bir-tú-un-ni
r 55	[lip-ru]-⸢us⸣ 15^* UD-MEŠ	(r 5) For 15 days [in Tis]hri (VII) I was in the presence of the king my lord, [and he w]as there too. He should have appealed while I was [the]re, and we should have spoken with each other. Why did he appeal to the king only when I had come here?
r 66	[ina ITI].⸢DUL₆⸣ ina IGI LUGAL EN-ía ana-ku
r 77	[ù šu]-⸢tu⸣ ina ŠÀ-bi-im-ma
r 88	ki-⸢i⸣ [am-ma]-ka a-na-ku-u-ni
r 99	lu iḫ-ḫur TA^v a-ḫa-a-a-iš
r 1010	lu ni-id-bu-ub a-ta-a
r 1111	a-du É a-na-ku al-lik-an-ni
r 1212	a-na LUGAL EN-ia iḫ-ḫu-ur
r 1313	ú-ma-a LUGAL be-lí ina UGU	(r 13) Now the king, my lord, should write to Il-yada' that he come [t]o the review. I shall come too and bring my witnesses with me. Nashur-Bel should come and arbitrate between us. Let us litigate with each other, and let the king decide between us.
r 1414	^mDINGIR—ia-da-aʾ liš-pur [a]-⸢na⸣ ma-šar-te
r 1515	lil-li-ka ù a-na-ku
r 1616	al-la-kam-ma LÚ^v.par-šá-mu-ti
r 1717	i-se-e-a ub-ba-la ^mNIGIN—EN
r 1818	lil-li-ka ina bir-tu-un-ni
r 1919	lu-ka-a.a-in TA^v a-ḫa-a-a-iš
r 2020	ni-id-bu-ub ⸢LUGAL^⸣ lip-ru-us^
r 2121	ina bir-tu-un-ni ina UGU ^msu-ma-a	(r 21) As to Sumaya about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "A servant of Il-yada' from Mandiru has gone with him, let him gather his [brothers] and (then) go away" —
r 2222	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni
Right
r.e. 23r.e. 23	ma-a ARAD ša ^mDINGIR—ía-da-aʾ
r.e. 2424	LÚ^v.man-di-ra-a.a šu-u i-si-šú
r.e. 2525	it-ta-la-ak
Edge
e. 1e. 1	[ŠEŠ-MEŠ^?]-šú li-ik-mi-si li-it-ta-at-lak
e. 22	[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ri la il-lak lu la i-dal-làḫ	(e. 2) he should not go [...] and make trouble [......].

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/P334114/.