SAA 15 184. Gold for the Statue of Humhum; Deserters from Bit-zeri (ABL 0438)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-[ía]	(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Marduk-šarru-[uṣur]. Good health to the king, [my lor]d!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dAMAR.UTU—⸢MAN^*⸣—[PAB]
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-ía]
o 44	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-[ni]	(4) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Where are these kakkussu-ornaments placed?" — they are placed upon the mole of the god Šidada, outwards. There are seven of them, and their weight is 5 minas and fifty shekels of gold. One mina and 10 shekels of the gold is for the breast of the god Humhum. A total of 7 minas of gold has been used in the time of the king, my lord, but there is no written record on it.
o 55	ma-a ka-ku-sa-ni an-nu-ti
o 66	a-a-ka ša-ka-nu ina UGU
o 77	ki-pi-li ša ^dši-da-da
o 88	ša-ka-nu pa-ni-šú-nu
o 99	a-na qa-an-ni 07 šu-nu
o 1010	05 MA.NA 50 GÍN KUG.GI KI.LAL-šú-nu
o 1111	01 MA.NA 10 GÍN KUG.GI
o 1212	a-na UZU.GABA ša ^dḪUM.ḪUM
o 1313	PAB 07 MA.NA KUG.GI ina ŠÀ-bi
o 1414	UD-mu-MEŠ ša LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 1515	ep-šú šaṭ-ṭa-ru ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu
o 1616	la-áš-šú
o 1717	ša LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(17) Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "What objects has Aššur-belu-taqqin made and placed there? Write it down and send it to me" — a breast part for Šidada, its weight being half a mina of gold, and one cup of 'hand water,' its weight being one mina of gold. These are the objects that he has made, and there is a written document by Aššur-[belu-ta]qqin on them.
o 1818	ma-a mi-nu i-ba-áš-ši
o 1919	ú-de-e ^maš-šur—U—LAL
Reverse
r 1r 1	e-pu-uš ina ŠÀ-bi
r 22	iš-kun ma-a šu-ṭu-ru
r 33	še-bi-la UZU.GABA a-na
r 44	^dši-da-da 1/2 MA.NA KUG.GI
r 55	KI.LAL-ša :. 01.et qa-bu-tu
r 66	ša A-MEŠ ŠU.2 01 MA.NA KUG.GI KI.LAL-ša
r 77	an-nu-ti šu-nu ú-de-e
r 88	ša e-pu-šu-u-ni
r 99	šaṭ-ṭa-ru ša ^maš-šur—[U]—⸢LAL⸣
r 1010	ina UGU-ḫi-šú-nu LÚ^v.⸢GAL^—BAD^-ḪAL^*⸣ šú-u	(r 10) A cavalry commander — one of the šandabakku — with a horse has deserted to my presence. I asked him about the news, and he told me: "Ṣala[...] has been brought into the house of [NN]
r 1111	ša LÚ^v.GÚ.EN.NA šu-ú
r 1212	ù 01-en ANŠE.KUR.RA ina pa-né-e-a
r 1313	it-tu-uq-ta a-sa-al-šú
r 1414	ma-a mi-nu ⸢ṭè^*⸣-e-mu
r 1515	ma-a ⸢^mṣa^?-la^*⸣-[x]+⸢x⸣-tú ina É
r 1616	^m⸢ba^?⸣-[x x x] ⸢šu^?-ru⸣-bu
r 1717	ma-[a x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]	(r 17) "[......]
r 1818	ma-[a x x x x x x]	(r 18) "[......]
r 1919	⸢si⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(r 19) ["......]
r 2020	⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x]	(r 20) ["......]
r 2121	ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]	(r 21) "[......]"
Right		(r 21) "[......]"
r.e. 22r.e. 22	LÚ^v.ša—BAD^*-[ḪAL x x x x x x]	(r 22) caval[rymen ...... of] the son of Zerî [......].
r.e. 2323	DUMU^*—^mNUMUN-⸢i⸣ [x x x]	(r 22) caval[rymen ...... of] the son of Zerî [......].
r.e. 2424	i-sa-[ap-ru-u-ni ma-a]	(r 24) They have se[nt me this word]: "We shall desert for the [king], our lord."
r.e. 2525	ina pa-an [LUGAL] EN-⸢ni⸣
r.e. 2626	ni-ma-⸢qu⸣-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x]
r.e. 2727	⸢x⸣+[x x]-ta-la [x x]	(r 27) [...]...[...]
Edge		(r 27) [...]...[...]
e. 1e. 1	nu-uk it-ḫu-ra-a-te ina ŠU.2 LÚ^v.DUMU—KÁ.⸢DINGIR⸣.RA	(e. 1) I (told him): "Let us send them tokens through a Babylonian." Perhaps the gods of the king my lord will make it (happen) and they will desert. I shall then send him to the king, my lord.
e. 22	ni-iš-pu-ra-šú-nu is—su-ri DINGIR-MEŠ LUGAL be-lí-ía
e. 33	e-pu-šu i-ma-qa-tu-u-ni ḫa-ra-ma-ma
e. 44	ina pa-an LUGAL be-lí-ía a-šap-pa-ra-šú

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/P334302/.