SAA 18 019. Intelligence about Kurigalzu (CT 54 164)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
o 2'2'	02 ⸢GÚ⸣.[UN] ⸢20 MA.NA x⸣ [x x x x]	(2) [...] has sent to Bel-ahhe-eriba the ... [...] two talents (and) twenty minas of [...], six minas of first quality wool, five j[ars], (and) one naṣbatu-garment [......], and [has written him] a letter.
o 3'3'	06 MA.NA SÍG^* SAG 05 ⸢DUG^.šap^⸣-[pa-ti]
o 4'4'	01.en TÚG.na-aṣ-ba-ti ina ⸢ba⸣-[x x x]
o 5'5'	a-na ^m^dEN—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—eri-ba LÚ.[x x]
o 6'6'	ul-te-bi-il ù ši-pir-[ti x x]
o 7'7'	40 MA.NA AN.BAR 01.et TÚG.⸢x⸣+[x x x]	(7) Forty minas of iron, one [...]-garment of first quality wool, one hat, [...], ... [..., on]e na[ṣbatu]-garment [...]
o 8'8'	šá SÍG^* ⸢SAG⸣ 01.en ⸢TÚG^*⸣.kub-šú ⸢nu⸣-[x x x]
o 9'9'	ina ŠU ⸢x⸣ [x 01].⸢en^?⸣ TÚG.na-⸢x⸣+[x x x]
o 10'10'	⸢ul x⸣ [x x x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x] ⸢di x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x]
r 2'2'	u ^mTUK-⸢ši⸣—[DINGIR x x x x x x x]	(r 2) and Raši-[il ......]
r 3'3'	^mku-ri-⸢gal-zu u^? x x⸣ [x x x x]	(r 3) Kurig[al]zu [...] has allied himself with them. He has written to [...]: "[Tell] N[N] that [he] should n[ot return] to his country this year. He should stay (there) and we should make one country enter [before] the king."
r 4'4'	it-ti-šú-nu il-ta-kan ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
r 5'5'	il-tap-ra um-ma a-na ^m⸢^d⸣[x x]
r 6'6'	šat-ti a-ga-a a-na KUR-šú ⸢la⸣ [i-tar]
r 7'7'	lu-ú a-šib-ma 01.et ma-a-ti [a-na IGI]
r 8'8'	LUGAL nu-še-rib [o]

r 9'9'	PAB an-nu-ú ṣi-⸢bu⸣-[tu šá LUGAL^?]	(r 9) All this (is relevant to) the objec[tive of the king.]
r 10'10'	ši-pir-⸢e-ti⸣ šá ^mku-⸢ri⸣-[gal-zu o]	(r 10) Messag[e]s which Kur[igalzu] dispatc[hed ...].
r 11'11'	⸢ul^?-te^?-bi^?⸣-[lu^?] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]	(r 10) Messag[e]s which Kur[igalzu] dispatc[hed ...].
	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/P238527/.