SAA 18 165. Fragment Concerning the People of Babylon (CT 54 016)[via saao/saa18]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | a-na ⸢ŠÀ-bi TIN.TIR⸣.[KI x x x x x x] | (1) into Babyl[on ......] |
| o 2'2' | LÚ.TIN.⸢TIR.KI-MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | (2) the Babylonians [......] |
| o 3'3' | ut-tir-⸢ru MAN-šú-nu⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (3) have sent back [...]. Their king [......] |
| o 4'4' | ki-i im-⸢qu-tu⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (4) when he fel[l ......] |
| o 5'5' | maš-ka-na-a-⸢ti?-šú⸣-[nu x x x x x x x] | (5) the[ir] tents [......] |
| o 6'6' | ù MÍ*-MEŠ-šú-nu [x x x x x x x x] | (6) and their women [......] |
| o 7'7' | (7) in a chariot to [......] | |
| o 8'8' | (8) when they made [......] | |
| o 9'9' | UN-MEŠ šá TIN.⸢TIR⸣.[KI x x x x x x x] | (9) the people of Babylo[n ......] |
| o 10'10' | i-dab-bu-bu ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (10) are speaking [......] |
| o 11'11' | i-dag-ga-lu ⸢ù?⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (11) they are looking [......] |
| o 12'12' | ⸢ni-kit-ti⸣ šu-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | (12) fear are they. ... [......] |
| o 13'13' | [x]-⸢x-šu?⸣-nu-⸢ti x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| o 14'14' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | ⸢šá? LÚ?.A?—KIN?⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | (r 1) of the messenger [......] |
| r 2'2' | ⸢x x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r 3'3' | ⸢x x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r 4'4' | ⸢x x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r 5'5' | ⸢ki?-i? x x x-MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 5) If ... [......] |
| r 6'6' | TIN.⸢TIR.KI x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 6) Babylon [......] |
| r 7'7' | LUGAL ⸢be?-lí?-x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 7) the king, my lord, [......] |
| r 8'8' | liš-⸢al? x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 8) should ask [......] |
| r 9'9' | li-⸢x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 9) should [......] |
| r 10'10' | i-na ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 10) in [......] |
| r 11'11' | it-ti ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 11) with [......] |
| r 12'12' | ⸢id⸣-da-bu-ub u ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x] | (r 12) has spoken and [......] |
| r 13'13' | [x x] ⸢ul⸣ i-[x x x x x x] | |
| rest broken away |
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/P238000/.