SAA 18 062. Keeping Watch in Bit-Dakkuri (CT 54 297)[via saao/saa18]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢i^*⸣
o 2'2'	[x x x x x x x x x x]-a-⸢ma⸣
o 3'3'	[x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-an-⸢x⸣+[x]
o 4'4'	[x x x x x x x x x x]-šú
o 5'5'	[x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣-ra
o 6'6'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-na pa-ni-šú	(6) [......] in his presence
o 7'7'	[x x x x x] re-ṣa-a-nu EN.NUN	(7) [......] our helper — we keep [the king's] watch [w]ith him.
o 8'8'	[x x x x] ⸢it⸣-ti-šú ni-nam-ṣar
o 9'9'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ šá É—^mda-ku-⸢ru⸣	(9) [......] of Bit-Dakkur[i]
o 10'10'	[x x x x x x]-⸢ši⸣ ina URU u ⸢EDIN⸣	(10) [......] in the city and the open count[ry]
o 11'11'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x-rab^?⸣-na-ši	(11) [......] us
o 12'12'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-mu^*-ma EN.⸢NUN⸣	(12) [......] and the watc[h]
Reverse		(12) [......] and the watc[h]
r 1r 1	[x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x]	(r 1) [......]
r 22	[x x x x x x] ⸢DUMU⸣ ^m^dAMAR.UTU—[x x x]	(r 2) [......] son of Marduk-[...]
r 33	[x x x x x x] be-lí LUGAL-[MEŠ x]	(r 3) [......] the lord of king[s ...]
r 44	[x x x x x x] ⸢a^-na^⸣ LUGAL [x x x]	(r 4) [......] to the king [...]
r 55	[x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ an ⸢x⸣+[x x x]
r 66	[x x x x x x x]+⸢x-an^*⸣-na [x x x]
r 77	[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x]
r 88	[x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]
	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/P239328/.