SAA 18 050. Fragment Concerning a Singer (CT 54 544)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x] ⸢x šu^?-ú x⸣+[x x x x x x x]
o 2'2'	[^dEN u] ⸢^d⸣AG šá UD-MEŠ [ár-ku-ti x x x x]	(2) [Bel and] Nabû, who [give long] days, [..., happi]ness, (and) good h[ealth to the king, my lord, will ...] what[ev]er the kin[g ...].
o 3'3'	[ṭu-ub] ŠÀ-bi ṭu-ub ⸢UZU⸣ [x x x x x x]
o 4'4'	[x] ⸢mim⸣-mu ma-la ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x]
o 5'5'	[lu^?]-né-si^?-šú-nu-⸢ti⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(5) [May h]e [re]move the[m ......]
o 6'6'	[x] ⸢x da^*⸣-mu ú-[x x x x x x x x]	(6) [...] blood [......]
o 7'7'	[x x]-⸢da-ak⸣ [x x x x x x x x]	(7) [......]
o 8'8'	[x x]+⸢x⸣ A.ŠÀ [x x x x x x x x x]1	(8) [...] field [......]
o 9'9'	[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x]	(8) [...] field [......]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x]
r 2'2'	[x x x x] ⸢UN-MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(r 2) [... p]eop[le ......]
r 3'3'	⸢x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x]	(r 3) [......]
r 4'4'	⸢a-x x x⸣ a-na ⸢AD⸣ [x x x x x x x]	(r 4) [...] to the fath[er ......]
r 5'5'	^m⸢x x⸣-an-ni DUMU-šú ⸢šá⸣ [^mx x x x x x]	(r 5) [...]anni, son of [NN],
r 6'6'	⸢LÚ.za⸣-am-ma-ru šá LUGAL a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x]	(r 6) the singer whom the king [......],
r 7'7'	⸢ana^? UGU^?⸣ É^?-šú šá la ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x]	(r 7) [has] without the king's consent [...] upon his house
r 8'8'	⸢x x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x]	(r 7) [has] without the king's consent [...] upon his house
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

1other possible readings include x-a ŠÀ-[bi

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/P237421/.