SAA 15 223. The King Resident in Babylonia (ABL 0315)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! The fort is well.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mLUGAL—IGI.LAL-an-ni
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	DI-mu a-na URU.ḪAL.ṢU
o 55	ina UGU ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ	(5) Concerning the horses about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "They should go to Qudanati" — I have equipped ten lone horses and sent a cohort commander with them. There are many Babylonians and Borsippans who pass there; should they take hold of them? As the king, my lord, commands.
o 66	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-ni
o 77	ma-a ina URU.qu-da-na^*-ti
o 88	lil-li-ku 10 ANŠE.e-da-nu-ti
o 99	ú-sa-aṣ-bit
o 1010	LÚ^v.GAL—ki-ṣir i-si-šú-nu
o 1111	a-sap-ra ma-ʾa-⸢da^*⸣
o 1212	LÚ^v.DUMU—KÁ.DINGIR.KI
o 1313	lu-u LÚ^v.DUMU—BÁR.SIPA.KI
o 1414	ša ina ŠÀ-bi e-ti-qu-[ni]
o 1515	li-iṣ-bat-u-né-e [o]
o 1616	a-ki ša LUGAL be-lí [o]
o 1717	i-qa-bu-u-ni [o]
Reverse
r 1r 1	ina UGU LÚ^v.mu-[šar-kis-MEŠ]	(r 1) As to the rec[ruitment officers] about whom the king, my lord, wr[ote to me]: "Why have they left their w[ork] and r[un away]?" — they have certainly not run a[way]. When the king, my lord, set out, the [...s] received them and re[lea]sed them.
r 22	ša LUGAL be-lí ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni]
r 33	ma-a a-ta-a ⸢dul⸣-[la-šú-nu]
r 44	ú-ra-me-u iḫ-[li-qu]
r 55	la-áš-šú la iḫ-⸢li⸣-[qu]
r 66	a-ki LUGAL be-lí [o]
r 77	ú-nam-miš-u-ni ⸢LÚ^v^*⸣.[x x]
r 88	it-taḫ-ru-šú-nu ur-⸢ta⸣-[me]-u^-⸢šú^-nu^*⸣
r 99	ú-ma-a LUGAL be-lí [o]	(r 9) Now that the king my lord is staying overnight here, they will come and comp[lete] (their work).
r 1010	an-na-ka bé-e-⸢de⸣
r 1111	il-la-ku-nu ú-šá-⸢lu^*⸣-[mu]

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/P334203/.