SAA 17 093. Hostages of Hindareans; Digging Canal and Choosing Bulls (CT 54 174)[via saao/saa17]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: yo[ur servant] Lanšê. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! [Say] to the king, my lord, for the well-being of the king, my lord: | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | (6) [No]w, concerning the [host]ages of the Hindareans of whom the king, my l[ord], wrote, I never take anyone — if he is a hostage or not a hostage — and imprison him in the garrison of the king, my lord! I bear (personally) the responsibility for all hostages of the Hindareans who are with me. | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | (16) Now, regarding those two soldiers, who were with them, they have come. | |
| o 1717 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 18b.e. 18 | [x]-MEŠ-šú-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x] | (18) Their [...] in [...] |
| b.e. 1919 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | [x x]-MEŠ-šú-nu ib-ba-ku-nu | (r 3) Their [...]s will bring the hostages here. |
| r 44 | (r 4) As to the work on the river, of which the king, my lord, gave me orders: I am now working on it. | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) As to the ungelded bulls of which the king, my lord, spoke, I am now choosing them. | |
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| 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/P238004/.