SAA 18 036. Precautions Against Rebellion (CT 54 024)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x]
o 2'2'	[x x x] at-ta-[x x x x]	(2) [...] I have [...]
o 3'3'	[x i]-⸢qab⸣-bi ⸢um⸣-[ma x x x]	(3) [... is s]aying: "[...]"
o 4'4'	[x]-⸢ri^?⸣-ia i^*-⸢x⸣+[x x x ki-i]	(4) [When I hea]rd that [...]
o 5'5'	[áš]-⸢mu^*⸣-ú um-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(4) [When I hea]rd that [...]
o 6'6'	TIN.TIR.KI a-na [x x x x]	(6) Babylon for/to [...],
o 7'7'	ak-te-⸢li um⸣-[ma x x x]	(7) I detained [...], say[ing]: "Let me get up [...] and come to [the king's audience]."
o 8'8'	lu-ut-ba-am-ma a-⸢na x⸣+[x x x x]
o 9'9'	lul-⸢li⸣-ka ár-ka-⸢niš⸣ [x x x]	(9) Afterwa[rds ...]
o 10'10'	⸢ig⸣-lu-tu šá LÚ.[x x x x x]	(10) they became frightened [...]
Bottom		(10) they became frightened [...]
b.e. 11'b.e. 11'	ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x]	(11) when [...]
b.e. 12'12'	i-ba-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]	(12) ... [...]
b.e. 13'13'	⸢dib⸣-bu id-⸢dab^*⸣-[bu^? x x x]	(13) th[ey] have spo[ken w]ords [...]
b.e. 14'14'	a-na UGU-ḫi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]	(14) against [...]
Reverse		(14) against [...]
r 1r 1	^m^dEN—MU—iš-⸢kun⸣ [x x x x x]1	(r 1) Bel-šuma-iškun [...]
r 22	rik-su it-[ti x x x x x]	(r 2) has made an agreement wi[th ...].
r 33	ir-ta-ka-as [x x x x x]	(r 2) has made an agreement wi[th ...].
r 44	a-na LUGAL ip-⸢te⸣-[x x x x x]	(r 4) has [... ...] to the king
r 55	si-ḫu a-na ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x x]	(r 5) [...] a revolt agains[t ...]
r 66	um-ma LUGAL la pu-⸢ut^?⸣-[qu-du x x x]	(r 6) saying: "The king is not prud[ent ...]."
r 77	⸢ki⸣-i ul-tu bi-it ⸢x⸣ [x x x x]	(r 7) [I]f, after [the ki]ng [has h]eard [this], the [...]s have not been assigne[d] two [...] each, they will [not] (be able to) guard [...].
r 88	⸢LUGAL iš⸣-mu-ú 02-ÀM LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
r 99	[x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ la pu-uq-qu-⸢du⸣ [x x x]
r 1010	[ul^? i]-⸢na⸣-aṣ-ṣa-ru LÚ-ma qin^?-⸢nu^?⸣ [x x x]	(r 10) Nobody will [...]
r 1111	[x x]+⸢x⸣-piš-ti a-na EDIN ⸢ul⸣ [x x x]	(r 11) [...] to the open country [...].
r 1212	[x] ⸢ki⸣-i áš-mu-ú ṭup-pi a-na [ṭup-pi x x]	(r 12) I have heard that for one ye[ar ...]
r 1313	[x x].KI LUGAL a-na pa-an LÚ.⸢x⸣+[x x x]	(r 13) [...] the king to [...]
r 1414	[x x x]-⸢di^?⸣ a-na-ku a-na UGU [x x x]	(r 14) [...] I concerning [...]
r 1515	[x x x] ⸢x x x x x x x⸣ [x x x]	(r 14) [...] I concerning [...]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Edge
e. 1e. 1	lu-ut-ba-⸢am⸣-[ma a-na x x x x x x]	(e. 1) Let me get u[p and] com[e to ......]
e. 22	lul-li-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x x x x x x]

1Or: {1}{d}EN--MU iš-kun# "Bel-iddin placed"

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/P238075/.