SAA 15 121. The People in the Charge of the Labdudaeans (ABL 0537)[via saao/saa15]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) Concerning the people in charge of the Labdudaean(s) about whom I spoke in the presence of the king, my lord, the king, my lord ordered Balassu, their prefect, to give the (said) people back to their owners. Now then I have writ[ten down] their names and am herewith sending them to the king, [my] lord. | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) Also, the men whose people are there have likewise had an audience with me. Let them give their people back to them, so they can be induced to work. (As long as) their attention is (directed) to their people, they cannot be induced to work, they being here, the(ir) people there. | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | (r 16) Perhaps they will say: "Ša-la-ili-mannu has given (them) to us." I have asked him — he says he has not given (away anybody). | |
| Right | ||
| r.e. 17r.e. 17 | ||
| r.e. 1818 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 |
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/P334367/.