SAA 18 073. Speaking Before the People of Nippur (CT 54 104)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL [KUR.KUR]	(1) To the king [of the lands, our] lord: you[r] servants, [the Nippurians. May] Enli[l], N[inurta, and Nusku bless] the ki[ng of the lands, our lord! May] Enli[l ......] of the ki[ng, our lord], and ma[y ......]
o 22	be-lí-[i-ni]
o 33	ARAD^-MEŠ-⸢ka^⸣ [LÚ.EN.LÍL.KI-MEŠ^?]
o 44	^dEN.⸢LÍL ^{d^*}⸣[NIN.URTA u ^dPA.TÚG]
o 55	a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [KUR.KUR EN-i-ni lik-ru-bu]
o 66	^dEN.⸢LÍL⸣ [x x x x x x x]
o 77	šá ⸢LUGAL⸣ [KUR.KUR EN-i-ni x x]
o 88	⸢ù^?⸣ [x x x x x x x x]
o 99	⸢lu⸣-[x x x x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	⸢x x ni x⸣+[x x x x UR.KU-MEŠ]
r 2'2'	mi-tu-ti a-⸢ni⸣-[ni it-ti^? ARAD-MEŠ^?]	(r 2) We a[re] dead [dogs]. We h[ave] sp[oken to the servants] of the king, our lord, saying: "Let us [see] the face of the king, [so that] we may co[me] to [li]fe."
r 3'3'	šá LUGAL be-lí-i-ni ⸢nid^?-da^?⸣-[bu^?-ub^?]
r 4'4'	um-ma pa-ni šá LUGAL ni-[mur-ma]
r 5'5'	ni-⸢ib-luṭ⸣ am—mì-⸢ni⸣ ina ⸢x⸣+[x x]	(r 5) Why [...] in [...]? We shall go in (accordance with) [your] orde[r], and we will spea[k] before the people of o[ur] country.
r 6'6'	⸢šap^?-x x a-na ši⸣-pir-⸢ti⸣-[ka^?]
r 7'7'	ni-il-lak ⸢ù^?⸣
r 8'8'	ina pa-ni UN-MEŠ KUR-⸢i⸣-[ni]
Right
r.e. 9r.e. 9	ni-id-⸢bu⸣-[ub]

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/P238447/.