SAA 18 156. We Are Like Sheep Without a Shepherd (ABL 1394)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x]
o 2'2'	[x x] ⸢a⸣-na TIN ⸢ZI⸣-[MEŠ-šú]	(2) May my lord [agree] to present [...] to [Nergal] and La[ṣ] for the preservation of [his] li[fe], and may he be an intercessor and speaker of a good word for Cutha in the presence of the king.
o 3'3'	be-lí a-na ^d[U.GUR]
o 4'4'	u ^dla-⸢aṣ⸣ [o]
o 5'5'	a-na šá-ra-ki [x]
o 6'6'	lu-u^* ṣa-bít a-bu-⸢tú⸣
o 7'7'	qa-be-é a-mat ⸢SIG₅⸣
o 8'8'	šá GÚ.DU₈.A.KI ina pa-an LUGAL
o 9'9'	^mNÍG.GUB DUMU-šú šá ^mi-ba-a	(9) When Kudurru of (Bit-)Ibâ a[bandoned] us like sheep without a shepherd [...]
o 10'10'	⸢a^-ki^-i^*⸣ šá^? ⸢UDU⸣-ḪI.A šá ⸢la⸣ LÚ.SIPA
Bottom
b.e. 11'b.e. 11'	⸢ki^?-i⸣ ú-[maš^?-ši^?-ra^?]-⸢an^⸣-na^-ši^*
		(Break)
b.e. 12'12'	⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x]+⸢x⸣
b.e. 13'13'	[x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x]
b.e. 14'14'	⸢u^? DINGIR^?-us⸣-[su x]	(14) and h[is] steadfast godhead [...].
Reverse
r 1r 1	ki-i-nu ⸢ú^?⸣-[x x]
r 22	^mgur-ri-⸢gal-su⸣	(r 2) Kuriga[l]zu, the son of our former commandant, is a man who reveres god and [k]ing.
r 33	DUMU LÚ.GAR—UMUŠ-ni
r 44	maḫ-ri-i pa-liḫ
r 55	DINGIR u ⸢LUGAL⸣ šu-ú o^*	(r 5) Should there be a document (sealed with) the royal signet ring in our presence, when we have forwarded it, [we pray t]o the gods [...]
r 66	ki-i ni-iz-bu ⸢un^⸣-qa^ LUGAL^*
r 77	ina pa-ni-nu ki-i
r 88	⸢nu^⸣-še^-ti-qu [x x x]
r 99	[a]-⸢na⸣ DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P237552/.