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SAA 17 093

CDLI P238004
Collection no.: BM —
Accession no.: K 01214 + K 07313 + K 07450
Primary publication(s): CT 54 174

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: Sennacherib (704–681 BC)
Dated: no

Sender Information

Sender: Lanše
Location: Gambulu
Recipient: the king
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SAA 17 093. Hostages of Hindareans; Digging Canal and Choosing Bulls (CT 54 174)[via saao/saa17]


Obverse
o 1o 1	⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(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	[ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ ^mla-an-še-e
o 33	[lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 44	[um-ma] a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia-a-ma
o 55	[um-ma a]-⸢na⸣ DI-mu LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 66	[a-du]-⸢ú⸣ ina UGU-ḫi	(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	[LÚ.maš]-⸢ka⸣-na-ti šá
o 88	⸢LÚ⸣.ḫi-⸢in⸣-dar šá LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí]
o 99	iš-pur LÚ.maš-⸢ka⸣-[nu]
o 1010	la LÚ.maš-ka-nu ki-i
o 1111	⸢ab⸣-ba-kám-ma ina É
o 1212	ma-ṣar-ti šá LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 1313	a-kil-lu-ú pu-ut LÚ.maš-ka-na-ti
o 1414	šá LÚ.ḫi-in-dar-a.a
o 1515	ma-la ina pa-ni-ia na-šá-ka
o 1616	a-du-ú šá 02 ERIM-MEŠ	(16) Now, regarding those two soldiers, who were with them, they have come.
o 1717	⸢it⸣-ti-šú-nu ⸢it-tal⸣-ku-nu
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b.e. 18b.e. 18	[x]-MEŠ-šú-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x]	(18) Their [...] in [...]
b.e. 1919	⸢x⸣+[x x x]	(19) ... [...]
Reverse		(19) ... [...]
r 1r 1	[x x] áš-šá šú-nu [x x x x]	(r 1) [...]. Because they are [...]
r 22	[il^?]-tap-ra LÚ.maš-ka-na-ti	(r 2) [... he has] written.
r 33	[x x]-MEŠ-šú-nu ib-ba-ku-nu	(r 3) Their [...]s will bring the hostages here.
r 44	[i-na] UGU-ḫi dul-lu šá ÍD	(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	šá LUGAL be-li ṭè-e-mu
r 66	iš-kun-an-ni a-du-ú
r 77	ina UGU-ḫi ú-šu-za-ka
r 88	ina UGU-ḫi GUD.ŠU.DU₇-MEŠ	(r 8) As to the ungelded bulls of which the king, my lord, spoke, I am now choosing them.
r 99	šá LUGAL be-li iq-ba-a
r 1010	a-du-ú a-ḫa-ri
	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/.

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