SAA 18 091. Letter to Nikkal-iddin Diverted to Zer-kitti-lišir (ABL 0589)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x] ⸢su x⸣+[x x x x]
o 2'2'	[x x x]-⸢šú^?-nu^?⸣-tu ù a-ni^?-[ni x x]	(2) [...] them. But w[e are ...s] whom Zer-kitti-lišir has captured becaus[e of ...]. And they are destroying [our houses], saying: "W[hy] did you send a letter to Nikkal-i[ddin]? Now Nikka[l-iddin] is plotting every day to mu[rder us]."
o 3'3'	šá ^mNUMUN—kit-ti—SI.SÁ a-na^? ⸢UGU^?⸣ [x x]
o 4'4'	ú-ṣab-bi-ta-an-na-šú ù [É-MEŠ-ni^?]
o 5'5'	ú-ḫa-ap-pu-ú um-ma mi-[nam-ma]
o 6'6'	ši-pir-ti a-na ^m^dNIN.GAL—⸢SUM⸣-[na]
o 7'7'	taš-pu-ra en-na ^m^dNIN.⸢GAL⸣—[SUM-na]
o 8'8'	UD-mu-us-su a-na UGU-ḫi da-a-[ki-ni]
o 9'9'	i-dab-bu-ub a-du-ú LÚ.A—KIN-[a-ni^?]	(9) Now then [our] messenger, to whom we gave the letter, sayi[ng]: "Take it and give it to Nikkal-i[ddin], saying, 'Fear not! Esarhaddon is firmly seated on the throne,'" diverted the letter, and it was given t[o] Zer-kitti-lišir.
o 10'10'	šá ši-pir-ti nid-da-áš-šú um-⸢ma⸣
o 11'11'	le-qé-e-ma a-na ^m^dNIN.GAL—⸢SUM⸣-[na]
o 12'12'	i-din um-ma la ta-pal-làḫ
Reverse
r 1r 1	^mAN.ŠÁR—ŠEŠ—SUM-na ina GIŠ.GU.ZA it-ta-⸢na^*⸣-[šab]
r 22	ši-pir-ti ú-šal-ma-am-ma a-⸢na⸣
r 33	^mNUMUN—kit-ti—SI.SÁ id-di-nu [x x x]	(r 3) [.....] the office of city overseer of Uruk.
r 44	šá—UGU—URU-ú-tu šá UNUG.KI ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(r 3) [.....] the office of city overseer of Uruk.
r 55	a-du-ú it-ti ^m^d⸢NIN⸣.[GAL—SUM-na]	(r 5) Now he is with Ni[kkal-iddin].
r 66	šu-ú LUGAL ze-ʾi-ir-šú^* [x x x x]	(r 6) The king should identify his enemy [...]
r 77	lu-mas-si LÚ.UNUG.KI-a.[a x x x]	(r 7) The man from Uruk [...]
r 88	^m^dNIN.GAL—SUM-na [x x x x x x]	(r 8) Nikkal-iddin [...]
r 99	šú-nu mu-šá-an-ni-ia^*-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]	(r 9) they are mutable [...]
r 1010	[x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x⸣ bu [x x x x x x]	(r 9) they are mutable [...]
	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/P237979/.