SAA 18 072. You have Taken Booty from Our City! (ABL 1090)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed or too broken for translation)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x]
o 2'2'	[x x x pa^?]-⸢ni-ka⸣ [x x]
o 3'3'	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ di ⸢x⸣+[x x]
o 4'4'	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na ⸢UGU⸣ [o]
o 5'5'	[^{m^?}x x—^d]AMAR.UTU lu-⸢x⸣+[x x]
o 6'6'	[a-na] maḫ-ri-ia ki-⸢i⸣	(6) When they came [to] me and dragged away fifty (stone) st[eps], they kept cutting off their foliage until I reached them. They went away, (but) did it again.
o 7'7'	il-li-ku-nu 50 mi-la-[a^?-tú^?]
o 8'8'	ki-i il-du-du-ú
o 9'9'	a-di UGU-ḫi šá a-kaš-šad-šú-nu-tú ⸢x⸣+[x o]
o 10'10'	ár-ti-šú-nu ub-te-ti-qu
o 11'11'	ki-i il-li-ku ut-tir-ru
o 12'12'	en-na ki-i il-li-ku-nu	(12) Now when they came (again), they carried off as booty two 'third-men' of the king. I do know that you ordered the sortie and I do know that the king had appoint[ed] them.
o 13'13'	02 LÚ.taš-li-šá-nu šá LUGAL
o 14'14'	iḫ-tab-tu ki-i ṣi^*-ta
o 15'15'	taq-bu-ú lu-uʾ i-di
o 16'16'	u ki-i LUGAL šu-nu ib-bu-[ú]
o 17'17'	lu-ú i-di
Reverse
r 1r 1	LUGAL be-lí-a-ni i-qab-bi	(r 1) The king, our lord, says: "You must not take booty from them." But you are assuredly coming and taking booty from our city!
r 22	um-<ma> ḫu-bu-su-nu la ta-ḫab-ba-⸢ta^*⸣
r 33	ù at-tu-nu a-na kun-nu-tu
r 44	tal^*-la-ka-nim ḫu-ub-tu
r 55	ul-tu ŠÀ-bi URU-i-ni
r 66	ta-ḫab-ba-ta-aʾ šá taq-bu-ú	(r 6) As to what you said: "We have captured Šuma-iddin about whom you wrote" — Šuma-iddin who [...]
r 77	um-ma ^mMU—MU šá taš-pu-ra
r 88	ni-iṣ-ṣab-tu ^mMU—MU
r 99	šá pa-⸢x x⸣ [x x x x]-ú
r 1010	⸢ul⸣ [x x x x x x x x]
r 1111	šu [x x x x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Edge
e. 1e. 1	ki-i i-bu-ku in-⸢daq^?⸣-ti ḫa-[x x x x]	(e. 1) When [...] led away [...], they deserted.
e. 22	šá ina pa-ni-ka šup-ram-ma ⸢ad⸣-[x x x x]	(e. 2) Send to me those who are in your presence, so I [will ...].

Adapted from Frances Reynolds, The Babylonian Correspondence of Esarhaddon and Letters to Assurbanipal and Sin-šarru-iškun from Northern and Central Babylonia (State Archives of Assyria, 18), 2003. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2015-16, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P236908/.