SAA 18 088. Na’id-Marduk is a Hundred Thousand Troops! (ABL 0958)[via saao/saa18]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | a-na LUGAL be-lí-[i-ni ARAD-MEŠ-ka x x x x] | (1) To the king, [our] lord: [your servants, the men of Na'id-Marduk], who [......] from Tilmu[n]. |
| o 22 | šá ul-tu NI.TUK*.[KI x x x x x x x x] | |
| o 33 | mna-id—dAMAR.UTU [x x x x x x x x x] | (3) Na'id-Marduk [......] |
| o 44 | (4) and to destroy [......] | |
| o 55 | ul iš-pur-an-na-⸢ši*⸣ [x x x x x x x] | (5) did not send to u[s ......] |
| o 66 | ù ERIM-MEŠ-šú ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | (6) and his troops [......] |
| o 77 | ik-lu-ú ⸢qu⸣-[x x x x x x x x] | (7) they withheld [......] |
| o 88 | (8) to Qanâ [......] | |
| o 99 | um-ma ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | (9) saying: "Give m[e] troops!" [They refus]ed |
| o 1010 | i-bi-na-an-⸢ni⸣ [x x x ul i-man-gu]-ru | |
| o 1111 | ul i-nam-⸢di⸣-[nu x x x x x x x]-⸢ma⸣ | (11) to giv[e them ......] |
| o 1212 | is-bu-us-su ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-niš | (12) he became angry [......] |
| o 1313 | (13) [h]e [too]k away our lord's possessions | |
| o 1414 | ⸢i-na⸣ ŠU.2 it-tan-[na x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú | (14) (and) handed them o[ver to ......] |
| o 1515 | [x] ⸢is⸣-bu-us-⸢su x⸣+[x x x ú]-⸢šaḫ*⸣-ḫi-sa | |
| o 1616 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú | |
| o 1717 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x-šú?⸣-nu?-tú | |
| rest broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning broken away | |
| r 1'1' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-i LÚ.[x x x] | (r 1) [...] If [... d]well [...] and do not ..., [...] they will die. |
| r 2'2' | [x x x x] ⸢uš⸣-šá-bu ù la i-⸢x⸣-ga | |
| r 3'3' | (r 3) When we heard that the king was angry with our lord, we became afraid, saying: "Our lord has committed no crime in the king's eyes," inasmuch as he prays every morning and evening to Šamaš and Bel for the life of the king, his lord; his heart is completely devoted to the king, his lord; they are lying about the king, his lord; and they ... his house because he grasps the feet of the king, his lord. | |
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| r 12'12' | (r 12) Your father, who was more attentive and circumspe[ct] than all (other) kings, used to speak like this: "I want for nothing in the land of Akkad and all the lands." Whether or not Na'id-Marduk was in [his] mind, the king should not now say: "Na'id-Marduk is (just) one man." He is a hundred thousand troops. | |
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| r 18'18' | mna-id—dAMAR.UTU 01.en šú-ú 01-me 01-lim | |
| r 19'19' | (r 19) May we, his troops, not slip from the hands of the k[ing], our lord, and may we not look for another lord! May the king, [our] l[ord], write to us, and [may] the king, ou[r] lord, [...] t[o Na'id-Marduk], our lord. | |
| r 20'20' | ||
| r 21'21' | <$x$> MAN-ma la nu-ba-ʾa LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí-a-ni] | |
| r 22'22' | liš*-pur-ra-an-na-ši-ma a-⸢na?⸣ [x x x] | |
| Right | ||
| r.e. 23r.e. 23 | be-lí-i-ni LUGAL be-lí-a-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| r.e. 2424 | (r 24) [May] Šamaš and Marduk [bless the king], our lord! | |
| r.e. 2525 |
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/P238077/.