SAA 18 182. Petitioning the King Again (ABL 0717)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR.KUR be-lí-ia	(1) [To] the king of the lands, my lord: [yo]ur [servant], Nabû-balassu-iqbi. May [Aššur], Šamaš, Marduk, and Nabû, lord of the sty[l]us, ordain [...] of the king, m[y] lord, [... of] your palace, [fe]ar of your lordship, [and the wel]l-being of the seed of the king, my lord, [for] everlasting [day]s.
o 22	[ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ ^m^dAG—TIN-su—iq-bi
o 33	[AN.ŠÁR ^d]UTU ^dAMAR.UTU u^* ^dPA EN GI.⸢DUB⸣.BA
o 44	[x x]-u^* šá LUGAL be-lí-⸢ia⸣
o 55	[x x] É.GAL-⸢ka⸣
o 66	[x pa]-làḫ be-lut-ti-ka
o 77	[ù] ⸢DI⸣-mu NUMUN šá LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 88	[a-na UD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ da-ru-tu liq-bu-ú
o 99	[ul-tu] re^-eš-im-ma ⸢UR^⸣.KU	(9) [From] the very beginning I have been a dog who loves [the house of] his [lord].
o 1010	[šá É—EN]-šú i-ra-mu a-na-ku
o 1111	[x x x]-tú it-ti LÚ.SUKKAL^*-⸢MEŠ⸣	(11) [...] with the viziers
o 1212	[x x x] ⸢x x x LUGAL⸣ [x x]	(12) [...] the king [...]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-⸢ia x x⸣	(r 1) [...] the king, my lord [...]
r 2'2'	⸢a-na⸣ [MU]—⸢DINGIR^*⸣ u mu-kin-nu-tu	(r 2) May the king, my lord, send me fo[r oa]th and testimony with these men; or may the king do as he finds best.
r 3'3'	LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-a^* it-ti ERIM-MEŠ an-nu-tu
r 4'4'	liš-pur-an-ni u ia-a-nu-ú
r 5'5'	LUGAL ki-i šá i-le-ʾu-ú
r 6'6'	li-pu-uš [o]
	rest uninscribed

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/P237664/.