SAA 18 175. Pitching Camp at Dilbat (ABL 0804)[via saao/saa18]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant, Marduk. May Nabû and [M]arduk bless the king of the lands, my lord. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) Thanks to Bel and Nabû, who gave dominance to the king of the lands, my lord, your servants, whom you took in your hands, are achievers and not d[o-nothin]gs. In three months they have done a j[o]b which would not be done in [thr]ee years, and delivered it to the king, my lord. | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | (15) But perhaps the king, my lord, will [say]: "He wrote earlier on that the jo[b] will not be don[e]. I sai[d] in order to further the object[ive] of the king, my lord: "[If] you seized [...], the king may achie[ve his] objective." Now yo[ur] gods have acted, and [the king] has ac[hieved] his objective. Moreover, the me[n] who s[aid], "Sipp[ar] is a door [locked] in front of us," have been led into the hands of the king of the lands, [my] lo[rd]. | |
| o 1616 | ||
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | ||
| o 1919 | ⸢taṣ⸣-bat du-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 20b.e. 20 | ||
| b.e. 2121 | ||
| b.e. 2222 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) I have heard the magnates say as follows: "We will set up a camp in Dilbat." If they set up a ca[m]p in Dilbat, the people will starve. Also, no caravan will come to them. Rather, their army will go out and plunder a caravan. Let them place the camp within the enclosure of the camp of Babylon of last year, and let boats and water-skins come to them. | |
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | ||
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| r 1717 | ||
| r 1818 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 19r.e. 19 | ||
| r.e. 2020 | ||
| r.e. 2121 | ||
| r.e. 2222 | ||
| Edge | ||
| e. 1e. 1 | 05-me 20 lu-ú ina GÚ.DU₈.A.KI ⸢ANŠE⸣.KUR.RA-MEŠ | (e. 1) There should be 520 (of them) in Cutha. The h[o]rses of the king of the lands should be in hiding and thwart their exit from Babylon. |
| e. 22 | ||
| e. 33 |
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/P237824/.