SAA 05 081

CDLI P337151
Collection no.: AO 04506
Primary publication(s): TCL 9 68

Provenance

Provenience: Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) (Pleiades ID: 874458)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous

Object Details

Object type: tablet
Material: clay

Text Details

Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Administrative Letter
Sender: Aššur-zeru-ibni
Location: Northeastern Assyria
Recipient: Nergal-eṭir

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
Dated: no

Views

SAA 05 081. A Case Against the Governor (TCL 9 68) [via SAAO/SAA05]


Obverse
o 1o 1	IM ^maš-šur—NUMUN—DÙ	(1) A tablet of Aššur-zeru-ibni to Nergal-eṭir. I am well; may my brother be well.
o 22	a-na ^mU.GUR—KAR-ir PAB-u-a
o 33	DI-mu a.a-ši
o 44	lu-u DI-mu a-na PAB-u-a
o 55	ú-ma-a an-nu-⸢ríg⸣	(5) My messenger is n[ow] on his way to the chief eunuch. He has left on account of the claim of the governor of Halziatbar concerning the Ehimaneans: "You are my servants!"
o 66	LÚ^v.A—KIN-ia i-la-ka
o 77	ina UGU-ḫi LÚ^v.GAL—SAG
o 88	it-tal-ka ina UGU-ḫi
o 99	de-ni ša LÚ^v.EN.NAM
o 1010	ša KUR.ḫal-zi—AD.BAR
o 1111	ina UGU-ḫi URU.e-ḫi-man-a.a
o 1212	ma-a LÚ^v.ARAD-MEŠ-ia
o 1313	at-tu-ú-ni
o 1414	ú-ma-a LÚ^v.A—KIN	(14) Now that the messenger is going to the chief [eunuch, ...];
o 1515	[ina] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi LÚ^v.GAL—[SAG]
o 1616	⸢il-lak⸣-a
o 1717	it-[x x]-si-i
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢at⸣-ta [x] mu u ku mi	(r 1) You [...]; write to anybody!
r 22	a-na ma-ni-ma šup-ra	(r 1) You [...]; write to anybody!
r 33	la-a ŠEŠ-a.a ⸢at⸣-ta-a	(r 3) Are you not my brother? Let my brother write (me) whatever the news (may be).
r 44	mi-nu šá ṭè-mu-u-ni
r 55	PAB-u-a li-iš-pur

Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2009-11, as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Mechanisms of Communication in an Ancient Empire: The Correspondence between the King of Assyria and his Magnates in the 8th Century BC” (AH/F016581/1; University College London) directed by Karen Radner. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P337151/.