SAA 18 021. Silver to the Grand Vizier (CT 54 515)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[IM ^m]⸢ZÁLAG-e-a a-na⸣	(1) [A tablet of Nu]rea to the [grand vizi]er, his lord. Good [health] to my lord! May Bel and Nabû ordain [...], happiness (and) good health to my lord f[o]rever! I pray every day to Bel and Nabû for the life of my lord.
o 22	[LÚ].⸢SUKKAL^? EN⸣-šú ⸢lu⸣-u
o 33	[šu-lum] ⸢a⸣-na EN-ía ^dEN u ^dAG
o 44	⸢x ṭu⸣-bi ŠÀ-bi
o 55	ṭu-⸢bi UZU šá⸣ EN-⸢ía^*⸣
o 66	⸢a-na da⸣-riš liq-⸢bu⸣-u
o 77	UD-⸢mu-us⸣-su ^dEN ⸢u ^dAG⸣
o 88	a-⸢na TIN ZI⸣-MEŠ šá EN-ía
o 99	ú-ṣal-la a-na ⸢KUG^.UD^⸣	(9) As for the silver at my disposal, about which my lord wrote to me, saying: "Dispatch it to me in the hands of the chief tailor," now then I am dispatching it to my lord in the hands of the chief tailor.
o 1010	šá ina pa-ni-ía šá be-lí
o 1111	iš-pu-ra um-ma
o 1212	ina ŠU.2 LÚ.GAL—⸢ka^?⸣-ṣir^?
o 1313	šu-bi-la
Reverse
r 1r 1	a-du-u ⸢ina ŠU.2 šá⸣
r 22	LÚ.GAL—⸢ka^?-ṣir^?⸣
r 33	a-na EN-ía ⸢ul⸣-te-bi-la
r 44	u ⸢a⸣-na UGU-⸢ḫi šá ina^? UGU^?⸣	(r 4) And concerning the order that he gave me about the Babylonian, sa[ying]: "Bring (him) and [... eve]ryone whom he knows,"
r 55	LÚ.⸢TIN.TIR.KI ṭè⸣-em
r 66	⸢iš-ku⸣-na-an-ni
r 77	⸢um⸣-[ma] i-šam-ma
r 88	⸢mam-ma ma⸣-la ⸢i⸣-du-u
r 99	[x x] it-ti-šú	(r 9) [...] with him [...]
r 1010	[x x]-a a-⸢na^?⸣ UGU-ḫi	(r 10) [...] concerning [...]
r 1111	[x x] a šu-lum	(r 11) Th[ey enquire af]ter the health [of Ina-te]šî-eṭir, his brother.
r 1212	[šá ^mina]—⸢SÙḪ⸣—ŠUR ŠEŠ-šú
Right
r.e. 13r.e. 13	[i-šá-ʾa]-⸢a-lu^*⸣

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/P237324/.