SAA 17 122. Pouring Gifts on Abu-eriba, King’s Relative (ABL 0511)[via saao/saa17]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía ARAD-ka ^m^dAG—MU—[SI.SÁ]	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-[lišir]. Good health to the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord:
o 22	lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 33	um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía-a-ma
o 44	a-du-ú KASKAL.2 a-na GÌR.2-MEŠ	(4) I prepared everything for the journey of Abu-eriba, the king's relative, and his wife, and they have now arrived.
o 55	šá ^mAD—eri-ba NUMUN—LUGAL ù
o 66	DAM-šú ki-i áš-ku-na it-tal-ku-ni
o 77	a-na ^mAD—eri-ba TÚG.BAR.DIB	(7) Abu-eriba has been given a kusītu-gown, a woollen cover, a threaded work dress of Tukriš, bracelets worth 1/3 shekels gold, 2 silver dishes, 35 dependents, 2 female singers, 1 horse, 2 camels, 4 donkeys, 20 cows, 300 sheep and 1 wagon; and his wife was provided with jewellery worth 2/3 minas of gold. She [with] all [her lady staff ...] was dressed in garments.
o 88	TÚG.šá-ḫi-il TÚG^*.mu-ṣi-pe-ti
o 99	kar-ke-e-ti šá tuk-riš ḪAR-MEŠ
o 1010	šá 1/3 GÍN KUG.GI 02 kap-pi KUG.UD
o 1111	35 ZI-tim 02 MÍ.NAR-MEŠ 01^-en^ ANŠE.KUR.RA
o 1212	02 ANŠE.A.AB.BA-MEŠ 04 ANŠE-MEŠ 20 GUD-MEŠ
o 1313	03 me UDU-MEŠ 01-et GIŠ.GAG.SI^?.LÁ
o 1414	ù DAM-sú 2/3 MA.NA KUG.GI
o 1515	du-ma^*-qu šak-na-at ⸢x x x x x⸣
o 1616	gab-bi TÚG^? lub^*-bu-uš-at
o 1717	ù LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ-šú gab-bi	(17) All his men too were robed (in purple) and provided with silver bracelets.
Bottom
b.e. 18b.e. 18	lu-ub-bu-šú ù
b.e. 1919	[ḪAR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ KUG.UD šak-nu
b.e. 2020	[^ma-qar—d].⸢EN^*⸣—IGI ù DAM-šú	(20) [Aqar]-Bel-lumur and his wife have given an order to Abu-eriba: "As soon as you have gone back, speak maliciously of Nabû-šuma-lišir in the palace!" Perhaps he will speak maliciously of me in the palace. The king, my lord, should know that the order came from our house.
Reverse
r 1r 1	ṭè-e-⸢mu⸣ ^mAD—eri-ba il-tak-nu
r 22	um-ma ki-i šá ta-at-tal-ku
r 33	dib-bu na-az-ru-ti
r 44	šá ^m^dAG—MU—SI ina É.GAL
r 55	du-bu-ub min-de-e-ma
r 66	dib-bi-ia na-az-ru-ti
r 77	ina É.GAL i-dab-bu-ub
r 88	LUGAL be-lí lu-u i-di ki-i
r 99	ṭè-e-mu ul-tu É-i^-ni^
r 1010	šak-nu
	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. 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/P237843/.