SAA 18 152. The Prelate of Dur-Šarrukku Sides with Šamaš-šumu-ukin (ABL 1247)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	⸢UD⸣-mu-[us-su x] ⸢šá^* x x x⸣	(1) [NN], the prela[te of Dur-Šarrukku], daily sends his messenger to the king of Babylon. In Nisan (I), the messenger of the king of Babylon came to him. He slaughtered a bull in his presence (and) carried off Humh[u]m, saying: "Safekeeping for the king, my lord!" He opened the seal(ed storehouse) of Humhum, which Kitrušu had sealed1 with the signet ring of Esarhaddon, [and] sent one talent twenty minas of gold (and) one talent of gold alloy to the king of Babylon with the messenger.
o 2'2'	LÚ.ŠÀ.⸢TAM^*⸣ [x x x]+⸢x x x x x⸣
o 3'3'	LÚ.A—KIN-šú ⸢a⸣-na pa-⸢ni LUGAL^*⸣
o 4'4'	TIN.TIR.KI i-šap-⸢par⸣
o 5'5'	i-na ITI.BARAG
o 6'6'	LÚ.A—KIN šá LUGAL TIN.TIR.KI
o 7'7'	a-na pa-ni-šú it-tal-ka
o 8'8'	GUD^* ina ⸢pa⸣-ni-šú in-da-ḫa-aṣ
o 9'9'	^dḫum-⸢ḫum⸣ il-tal-la
o 10'10'	um-⸢ma šul⸣-lum a-na LUGAL
o 11'11'	be-lí-⸢ia⸣ É—NA₄.KIŠIB
o 12'12'	šá ^dḫum-ḫum šá ina ŠÀ-bi
o 13'13'	un-qu šá ^m⸢^d⸣aš-šur—ŠEŠ—MU
o 14'14'	^m⸢kit^*⸣-ru-šú i-ka^?-ku^?1
o 15'15'	ip-te-ti-[ma] 01 ⸢GÚ⸣.UN
o 16'16'	20 MA.NA KUG.GI 01 GÚ.UN
o 17'17'	sa-a-du ⸢ina⸣ ŠU.2 LÚ.A—⸢KIN⸣
o 18'18'	a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ TIN.TIR.⸢KI⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	ul-te-bi-la UD-mu-⸢us-su⸣	(r 1) Nabû-ušabši, the haruspex, daily finds out and sends the news of the palace to Kudurru. He has taken his two sons (and) thirty men under their control and gone to the king of Babylon. May the king search (for them); [they are] men who ... affairs with him [......]
r 22	^m^dAG—GÁL-ši ba-ru-ú
r 33	ṭè-e-mu šá É.GAL
r 44	i-ḫe-ri-iṣ-ṣu
r 55	a-na ^mNÍG.GUB i-šap-par
r 66	02 DUMU^*-MEŠ-šú 30 ERIM-MEŠ
r 77	ina ŠU.2-šú-nu iṣ-ṣa-bat
r 88	a-na pa-ni LUGAL TIN.TIR.KI
r 99	it-tal-ka LUGAL
r 1010	⸢lu-u^-ba^⸣-ʾi ERIM-MEŠ šá dib-bi
r 1111	[x x x] ⸢it-ti⸣-šú^* šá^* MU E
r 1212	[x x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣-ir^*
r 1313	[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

1Or read ana ⸢kit⸣-ru-šú i-dak?-ku?

1 Or ‘which he was summoning to his aid’.

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/P237272/.