SAA 18 027. Go to Babylon! (CT 54 303)[via saao/saa18]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣.KI liš-⸢x x⸣ [x x]

(1) [...] let [him/them ...]

o 2'2'

[x x x x] ⸢a⸣-kan-na iš-⸢x⸣+[x x]

(2) [...] here [...]

o 3'3'

[x x x x]+⸢x⸣.KI i-lu-⸢ú⸣ [x x]

(3) [...] went up [to ...].

o 4'4'

[x x x] ⸢en⸣-na a-na TIN.TIR.[KI x x]

(4) [N]ow [...] to Babylon.

o 5'5'

[ina ŠÀ an-ni]-i* LUGAL lu-mas-si ⸢ki⸣-[i]

(5) [From thi]s the king may find out w[hether Bel ... will com]e to Babylon [i]n Nisan (I) and whether he will tell him (= the king): "Go to Babylon [...]!" He has (already) entered [...].

o 6'6'

[x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ ITI.BARAG a-na TIN.TIR.⸢KI⸣

o 7'7'

[x x il-la]-⸢kám⸣-ma i-qab-ba-áš-šú ⸢um⸣-[ma]

o 8'8'

[x x x x] a-na TIN.TIR.KI a-lik a-⸢na⸣

o 9'9'

[x x].⸢KI⸣ i-ter-ba áš-šú ta-⸢mi⸣-[tú]

(9) As to the orac[le query, ...] and their brother will enter and [...]

o 10'10'

[x x x]-ni u ŠEŠ-šú-nu ir-ru-ub-ma [x]

o 11'11'

[x x x]+⸢x⸣ si-it-ti dib-bi ⸢x⸣+[x x]

(11) [...] the rest of the words [...]

o 12'12'

[x] ⸢x x x-ia LUGAL x⸣+[x x x x]

(12) [...] the king [...]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Reverse
rr completely broken away

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/P239347/.