SAA 18 100. Your Son Will Kill You! (ABL 1091)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x] ⸢x ti x x x⸣ [x x x x]
o 2'2'	[x] ⸢ŠEŠ⸣-MEŠ-ni URU.TIN.⸢TIR⸣.[KI-MEŠ x x]	(2) our [brothe]rs, [citizens of] Babylo[n ...]
o 3'3'	[^mDI]-⸢mu⸣—PAB-MEŠ i-na É [x x x x]	(3) [Šulm]u-ahhe in the house [...]
o 4'4'	[a]-⸢de⸣-e šá si-i-ḫi šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(4) When they heard about the [tre]aty of rebellion which [...], one o[f them] ap[pealed] to the king before .... Nabû-šuma-iškun and Ṣi[llaya]1 came and ques[tioned him]: "[What] is your appeal to the king ab[out]?" He (answered): "It is about Arda-[Mullissi]."
o 5'5'	ki-i iš-mu-ú 01.en i-⸢na⸣ [ŠÀ-bi-šú-nu]
o 6'6'	i-na pa-ni (ni)-ir-ti a-mat LUGAL ⸢iq^?⸣-[ta-bi]
o 7'7'	^m^dAG—MU—iš-kun ù ^m⸢ṣil⸣-[la-a]1
o 8'8'	ki-i il-li-ku-nu i-šá-a-[lu-šú]
o 9'9'	um-ma a-mat LUGAL-ka a-na ⸢UGU⸣ [mi-ni-i]
o 10'10'	šu-ú ma-a a-na UGU ^mARAD—⸢^d⸣[NIN.LÍL]
o 11'11'	⸢i⸣-na TÚG.KUR.RA-šú pa-ni-šú ⸢i^*⸣-[ter-mu]	(11) Th[ey covered] his face with his cloak and made him stand before Arda-Mul[lissi himself], saying: "Look! [Your appeal] is being granted, say it with your own mouth!" He said: "Your son Arda-[Mullissi] will kill you."
Reverse
r 1r 1	i-na pa-ni ^mARAD—^dNIN.[LÍL-ma]
r 22	ul-te-zi-zi-šú um-ma a-mur^* ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
r 33	im-ma-⸢gar⸣ ina pi-i-ka qi-[bi]
r 44	šu-ú iq-ta-bi um-ma ^mARAD—⸢^d⸣[NIN.LÍL]
r 55	DUMU-ka i-dak-ka pa-ni-[šú]	(r 5) They uncovered [his] face, and after Arda-Mu[llissi] had interrogated him, th[ey] kil[led] hi[m] and his brothers.
r 66	ki-i ip-tu-ú ^mARAD—^d⸢NIN⸣.[LÍL]
r 77	ki-i ú-sa-niq-šú a-na šá-[a-šú]
r 88	⸢ù^⸣ ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šú i-⸢duk^⸣-[ku]
r 99	[x x] ⸢04⸣ ERIM-MEŠ ^mTUR^? ^mDÙG-ia ^m⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(r 9) When [...] four men — Ṣuhru, Ṭabiya, N[N, and NN] — [told it to] Nabû-aha-ereš, [he did not] believe it. [He sho]uld question the men of the house of Ard[a-Mullissi].
r 1010	[a-na^?] ^m^dAG—ŠEŠ—APIN-eš ki-⸢i⸣ [iq-bu-ú^?]
r 1111	[ul^? i^?]-qi-pi ERIM-MEŠ šá É ^m⸢ARAD⸣—[^dNIN.LÍL]
r 1212	⸢li^?⸣-šá-al-la :^* en-⸢na⸣ [a-du-ú]	(r 12) No[w then th]ey [ha]ve [rec]eived [all kinds of] nice [wo]rds about [...]
r 1313	[da]-⸢ba⸣-ba bab-ba-nu-ú šá ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
r 1414	[in]-⸢da^*⸣-ḫar-ru a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-i-ni]	(r 14) [When th]ey [w]rote to the ki[ng, our lord], the king [our lord]
r 1515	[ki-i] ⸢iš⸣-pu-ru LUGAL [EN-a-ni]
r 1616	[x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

1Or read the last word as {m}ṣil#-[DN].

1 Or ‘Ṣil-[DN]’.

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/P236909/.