SAA 15 030. The Son of Yakin is in Babylon; I Cannot March to Meturna (ABL 0455)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na [LUGAL be-lí-ia]	(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Nabû-belu-ka''in]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m[^dAG—EN—GIN-in]
o 33	lu-u DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL be-li-ía]
o 44	ša LUGAL be-lí ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni]	(4) Concerning what the king, my lord, w[rote to me]: "I [gave] you [explicit orde]rs regarding the work on [...], but you do not obey [me]" — if I did not obey the king, my lord, whom else would I obey? Now, the king, my lord, has (already) three or four times written to me in this manner; how can I live? My heart does not beat, blood has dried up in my veins.
o 55	ma-a ina UGU dul₆-li ⸢ša^*⸣ [x x x]
o 66	bir-ti IGI.2-MEŠ-ka ⸢un⸣-[ta-di]-⸢id^*⸣
o 77	ma-a la ta-šam-⸢man^*⸣-[ni]
o 88	ša a-na LUGAL EN-ia la a-šam-⸢mu^*⸣-ni
o 99	a-na man-ni-ma aḫ—ḫur la-áš-me
o 1010	an-nu-rig 03-šú 04-šú
o 1111	LUGAL be-lí a-ki an-ni-⸢ie⸣-e
o 1212	i-šá-pa-ra a-ke-e la-ab-laṭ
o 1313	a-li ni-kit-ti da-me-e-a
o 1414	ina ŠÀ-bi-ia e-tab-lu
o 1515	ina qa-ni mi-iḫ-re-e-a	(15) I do my work like my equals. I am not the first among them, nor am I the worst; I do as they do. Why does the king, my lord, single me out as if I did [not] obey the king, my lord?
o 1616	dul₆-lu ep-pa-áš
o 1717	la a-šá-ri-du-um-ma
o 1818	ša ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu a-na-ku
o 1919	⸢la^*⸣ ma-ki-iu-ú a-na-ku
o 2020	[a]-ki ša šu-nu ep-pa-šú-u-ni
o 2121	[a]-⸢na⸣-ku ep-pa-áš
Reverse
r 1r 1	[ki] ma-ṣi a-na LUGAL EN-ia
r 22	[la] ⸢a⸣-šam-mu-u-ni
r 33	[am]—mì-ni LUGAL be-lí ú-ba-ʾa-an-ni
r 44	[ša] LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(r 4) [Concerning what] the king, my lord, w[rote to me]: "Be in Meturna and keep watch!" — right now I am in Dur-Anuniti, between Meturna and Dur-Bel-ila'i, in the piedmont. My troops are with me, but the son of Yakin is in Babylon.
r 55	⸢ma⸣-a ina URU.A-MEŠ—tur-na lu ⸢at^*⸣-ta
r 66	EN.NUN ú-ṣur an-nu-⸢rig⸣
r 77	ina URU.BÀD—^da-nu-ni-ti bir-ti
r 88	URU.A-MEŠ—tur-na ù URU.BÀD—EN—DINGIR-a.a
r 99	ina še-ep KUR^*-i a-na-ku LÚ^v.e-muq-e-a
r 1010	ina pa-né-e-a DUMU—^mia-GIN
r 1111	ina KÁ.DINGIR.KI-ma šú-ú
r 1212	KASKAL ka-ri-im a-na-ku la al-la-ka	(r 12) It is an impasse: I cannot go and start my journey, nor can I release my king's men to collect their provisions. Let the king, my lord, write me what (his) orders are.
r 1313	re-eš KASKAL-ia la a-na-áš-ši
r 1414	ù LÚ^v.ERIM-MEŠ—MAN-e-a la ú-ra-am-ma
r 1515	re-eš ZÍD.DA^*.KASKAL-MEŠ-šú-nu
r 1616	la i-na-áš-ši-iu-ú
r 1717	mi-nu ša ṭè-mu-un-ni
r 1818	LUGAL be-lí liš-pu-ra

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/P334316/.