SAA 18 061. Appeal to the King (CT 54 001)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a]-⸢na LUGAL be⸣-[lí-ia]	(1) [T]o the king, [my] l[ord]: your [serva]nt, [NN]. May Nabû and Mar[duk] bl[ess] the king, my lord.
o 22	⸢ARAD-ka ^m^d⸣[x x x]
o 33	⸢^dAG⸣ u ^d⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU a-na]
o 44	⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ía ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu]
o 55	⸢ina pi⸣-i-ka ⸢el^*⸣-[lu]	(5) I h[eard] from your ho[ly] mouth which Marduk and Zar[panitu] love: "Nobody will [...] anything [...]."
o 66	⸢šá ^dAMAR.UTU u ^dzar⸣-[pa-ni-tum]
o 77	⸢i-ra^?-a^?-mu^? al^?⸣-[te-me]
o 88	⸢um-ma x x x x x x⸣
o 99	mam-ma mim-mu ⸢ul x-x-nu^?⸣
o 1010	ul-⸢tu⸣ [o] KÁ.⸢DINGIR⸣	(10) From the gate of the god [...] in [...], (and) when Bel-naṣir, having given a woman [to] his son, [...]ed for food, [I ...].
o 1111	ina ⸢ŠÀ^?-bi^? x⸣+[x x x] ⸢x x⸣
o 1212	01.et MÍ [a-na] ⸢DUMU^?⸣-šú
o 1313	^m^dEN—PAB-⸢ir⸣
o 1414	ki-i ⸢id⸣-di-nu
o 1515	a-na NINDA-ḪI.A
o 1616	⸢ki-i x x⸣-nu
o 1717	[x x x x x] ⸢en⸣-na	(17) Now [NN is saying]: "I have taken his wife in exchange." They are giving my house, my field, and my wife to Nenea, an exorcist who forsook his lord's house and ran away.
o 1818	[x x x x x x]
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢um^-ma^⸣ DAM-⸢su⸣
r 22	a-na ku^*-mu a-bu-⸢uk⸣
r 33	^mni-né-e-a LÚ.MAŠ
r 44	šá É—be-lí-⸢šú⸣ ú-maš-ši-ru^-ma^
r 55	⸢iḫ-li-qu⸣ É A.ŠÀ.GA
r 66	ù DAM-a
r 77	i-nam-⸢di⸣-nu-niš-šú
r 88	ù ⸢a-ki⸣ šá LUGAL EN-a	(r 8) So, although I have always revered the king, my lord, when I am dead, where shall they bury me? There is no city, no open country, no land, no people, nor a single 'litre' of bread (for me) in my lord's house. May my petition to the king, my lord, be received with sympathy!
r 99	ap-⸢tal^*⸣-làḫ ki-i mi-⸢ta⸣-ku
r 1010	e-ka-nu li-iq-bi-ru-⸢in-ni⸣
r 1111	ul URU ul EDIN ul ⸢KUR⸣
r 1212	ul UN-MEŠ ul 01 qa
r 1313	NINDA-ḪI.A i-na ⸢É⸣—EN-ía
r 1414	a-na ṭu-⸢ub ma⸣-ḫa-ra [o]
r 1515	⸢šá LUGAL be-lí-ia⸣ [o]
r 1616	⸢li-šak⸣-kan [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/P237831/.