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SAA 17 059

  • CDLI P237833
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 00588
  • Primary publication(s): ABL 0524

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Babylonian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Babylonian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
  • Dated: no
  • Proposed Date: (710-709)

Sender Information

  • Sender: Ha’il-il, Zabdi-il
  • Location: Šabhanu
  • Recipient: Sargon (II), king of the world
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SAA 17 059. The Letters of Nabu-taklak are Written by his Delegates (ABL 0524)[via saao/saa17]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL—GIN LUGAL ŠÚ um-ma LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ-ka

(1) To Sargon, king of the universe: thus say your servants Ha'il-il and Zabdi-il, who guard the fortress of Šabhanu for the king, their lord. The king's fortress is well. Good health to the king, our lord!

o 22

mḫa-il—DINGIR ù mzab-di—DINGIR

o 33

šá URU.bir-ti šá URU.šab-ḫa-a-ni

o 44

a-na LUGAL be-lí-šú-nu i-na-aṣ-ṣa-ru

o 55

šul-mu a-na URU.bir-ti šá LUGAL

o 66

lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-i-ni

o 77

ši-pir-ti šá mdAG—tak-lak

(7) The letter(s) which Nabû-taklak sends to the king — it is not Nabû-taklak (himself) but his delegates who write them. And what they are (now) writing to the king, viz., "Remove the prefect from Bit-Dakuri!" — the king should write to them: "Why do you write (about) injustice? [If he] is doing injustice to you, [br]ing [...]!"

o 88

a-na LUGAL ú-šeb-bi-la

o 99

ul mdAG—tak-lak ki-i i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-ši

o 1010

LÚ.qí-pa-ni-šú i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-ši

o 1111

ù šá a-na LUGAL i-šap-pa-ru-ú-ni

o 1212

um-ma LÚ.šak*-nu URU*.É—mda-kur

o 1313

šu-ú-ṣi LUGAL liš-pur-áš-šú-nu-⸢ti⸣

o 1414

um-ma ⸢mi-nu⸣-ú ḫa-ba-lu

o 1515

⸢ta*⸣-šaṭ-ṭa-[ra ki-i i]-⸢ḫab*⸣-bi-lu-ku-nu*-[ši]

o 1616

[x x x x x x x x šu]-bi-la

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rr beginning broken away

r 1'1'

[x x] ⸢il⸣-la-ku [x x x x x x]

(r 1) [...] they are going

r 2'2'

[a-na?] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-šú-nu [x x x x]

(r 2) [...] against them [...]

r 3'3'

[x ina] ⸢UGU*⸣-ḫi a-na [x x x x]

(r 3) [...] that is why they write to [the king]: "[...]"

r 4'4'

[i]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ru-ni um-⸢ma⸣ [x x x]

r 5'5'

[x x] ⸢um⸣-ma ni-i-[nu x x x]

(r 5) [...] "We are [...]"

r 6'6'

i-⸢na⸣ É šá LUGAL ni-ip-pi-[ir-šú-nu-ti]

(r 6) "We shall nouri[sh them] in the house of the king."

r 7'7'

LUGAL a-na LÚ.šak-ni liš-pu-ram-⸢ma⸣

(r 7) Let the king write to the prefect that he should place his messenger in Bit-Tammeš-šama' to keep the barley for the king.

r 8'8'

LÚ.A—KIN-šú ina É—tam-meš—ša-ma-aʾ [o]

r 9'9'

liš-kun-ma ŠE.BAR a-na LUGAL

r 10'10'

lu-ki-il

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/P237833/.

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