SAA 18 054. Accusations Against Şillaya (ABL 1255)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR EN-ía] ARAD-ka	(1) [To the king of the lands, my lord]: your servant, [NN]. May [Bel and Nabû] ordain a life of [long] days [of] happiness, [... of ki]ngship, and an enduring throne of the k[ing, my lord, for] everlasting days.
o 22	[^mx x x ^dEN^? u ^dAG^?] ba-laṭ UD-me
o 33	[GÍD.DA-MEŠ šá^? o] ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi
o 44	⸢da^?⸣-[x x] ⸢LUGAL^*⸣-ú-ti u la-bar GIŠ.GU.ZA
o 55	šá ⸢LUGAL^*⸣ [EN-ia ana] UD-me da-ru-ti liq-bu-ú
o 66	ana ⸢UGU^*⸣ [dib]-⸢bi⸣ šá LUGAL EN iš-pur	(6) Conce[rning the matte]rs about which the king, the lord, wrote, say[ing]: "[From wh]om did you hear them?" — Zakir, [the ...] of the brother-in-law of [NN] told them to me.
o 77	⸢um^*⸣-[ma ina pi] ⸢man⸣-ni taš-mi ^mza-kir
o 88	[x x x x x] ⸢šá⸣ DUMU e-me-šú
o 99	[šá ^mx x x] ⸢iq⸣-ta-ba-a
o 1010	[da-ba-bu^? ar-ku]-⸢ú^*⸣ u maḫ-ru-ú	(10) [All the forme]r and later [rumours which] I have written [to the ki]ng, my lord, [I have heard from the comman]dant of Kish and from Zakir. [I wrote] to the king, my lord, what they had to say.
o 1111	[šá a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ía áš-pur
o 1212	[ina pi LÚ.GAR]—⸢UMUŠ^*⸣ šá KIŠ.KI u ^mza-kir
o 1313	[al-te-me] ⸢šá^*⸣ pi-šú-nu ana LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-ía
o 1414	[al-tap-ra ki-i] LUGAL EN ṣe-bu-ú	(14) [If] the king, the lord, wishes, let me try to hear [about the affairs of] Ṣillaya. [Let me cho]ose [...], and let [Mardu]k-naṣir and Zakir report his [...] to the king.
o 1515	[x x x x x ^m]ṣil-la-a lu-uš-me
o 1616	[x x x lu^?-us^?]-⸢si⸣-iq-ma
o 1717	[x x ^m^dAMAR].⸢UTU^*⸣—PAB-ir u ^mza-kir
o 1818	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú ana LUGAL liq-⸢bu⸣-ú
o 1919	[x x x x x] ⸢la^⸣ i-šá-ʾa-al-šú^ ⸢x x⸣	(19) [...] should [n]ot question him
o 2020	[x x x x] ⸢la^?⸣ i-ga-ár-ru ⸢x x⸣	(20) [...] should [no]t argue ...
o 2121	[x x x] ⸢la^⸣ i-na-aṣ-⸢ṣar^⸣-šú^*	(21) [...] should not keep him under guard.

Bottom
b.e. 22b.e. 22	^m^dEN—DÙ-uš u ^m^d⸢EN—TIN^?⸣-[iṭ o]	(22) Ze[rutiya] broug[ht] in Bel-ipuš and Be[l]-bu[lliṭ] from Dilbat, (but) the king did not listen to what they said, and Ṣill[aya] has cunningly returned th[em] to Dilbat, telling them to mobilise archers. [I]f they have not mobilised archers, shouldn't he mobilise some, if there are none? He sends back men who have com[e] to him, telling himself: "They should not make my affairs known and no witnesses against me should stay here." May the king ask Zerutiya why he brought them in.
b.e. 2323	LÚ.⸢URU.dil⸣-bat.KI-ú^-a^ ⸢^mNUMUN^*⸣-[ú-ti-ía]
b.e. 2424	i-⸢tab-kaš⸣-šú-nu-ti
Reverse
r 1r 1	LUGAL šá pi-šú-nu ul iš-me u ^mṣil-⸢la⸣-[a]
r 22	ina ni-kil-tum ana URU.dil-bat.KI ut-tir-šú-⸢nu⸣-[ti]
r 33	um-ma ERIM-ME šá GIŠ.BAN di-ka-a-ni ⸢ki⸣-i
r 44	šú-nu ERIM-ME GIŠ.BAN la id-de-ku-ni mam-ma-a
r 55	ki-i ia-a-aʾ-nu-um-ma la i-de-ek-ka-a
r 66	ERIM-ME šá ana UGU-ḫi-šú il-li-ku-⸢ni⸣ [ana] ⸢ku^-tal^⸣-lu
r 77	ú-šaḫ-ḫa-as um-ma dib-bi-ía
r 88	la^! ú-šá-áš-mu-ú^* u LÚ.mu-kin-ni-ía
r 99	a-kan-na la^! iz-za-az-zi ^mNUMUN-ú-ti-ía
r 1010	LUGAL liš-ʾa^*-al ana UGU mi-ni-i i-bu-kaš-šú-nu-ti

r 1111	^m⸢^d⸣EN—ŠEŠ-ME—^dAMAR.UTU LÚ.EN—di-i-nu šá ^m^dEN—MU	(r 11) Zerutiya (also) brought in Bel-ahhe-Marduk, a legal adversary of Bel-iddin, (but) nobody brought him to the court, (and) Ṣillaya has annulled the case. The king should ask him why he came.
r 1212	^mNUMUN-ú-ti-ia i-tab-kaš-šú mam-ma ana di-i-nu
r 1313	ul ú-še-ṣa-áš-šú ^mṣil-la-a ik-ta-ba-as
r 1414	LUGAL liš-ʾa-al-šú ana UGU mi-ni-i
r 1515	il-li-ka

r 1616	u ana-ku nap-šá-ti-ía ana LUGAL EN-ía	(r 16) And as for me, my life is indeed entrusted to the king, my lord! He (= Ṣillaya) is going to destroy and kill us all by oppression. Besides having taken my property [..., he has ...ed] whatever he gave me. I keep telling him [...]
r 1717	lu-ú pa-aq-da gab^*-bi na-a-ši
r 1818	⸢ú⸣-qát-te-e-ma ina^* tuk^*-ka-a-ti
r 1919	[i^?]-⸢da^⸣-a-ki ana UGU šá :^ NÍG^*.ŠID-ía
r 2020	[x x] ⸢iš⸣-šú-ú ma-la ⸢id^⸣-di^-na^*
Right
r.e. 21r.e. 21	[x x x x] ⸢a-qa^⸣-ba^-áš-šú
r.e. 2222	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ERIM-ME	(r.e. 22) [...] men
r.e. 2323	[x x x x i^?]-⸢qab^-bi^⸣	(r.e. 23) [... s]ays, "[... t]o him ... [...]
Edge		(r.e. 23) [... s]ays, "[... t]o him ... [...]
e. 1e. 1	um-⸢ma⸣ [x x x ana] ⸢UGU^?⸣-ḫi-šú us^? ⸢ka⸣ [x]

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/P237652/.