SAA 13 080. Request for a Personal Audience with the King (ABL 0377) [via SAAO/SAA13]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. Good health, good health, good health to the king, my lord. A thousand (times) good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, Bel, and [Nabû] bless the king, my lord.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—MU—AŠ
o 33	lu-u DI-mu lu-u DI-mu
o 44	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 55	a-du 01 lim lu-u DI-mu
o 66	a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 77	^daš-šur ^d30 ^dšá-maš
o 88	^dEN ù ^d[AG]
o 99	a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 1010	lik-ru-bu
o 1111	pa-ni ša LUGAL EN-ia	(11) The face of the king my lord has been seen by very many (people).
o 1212	a—dan-niš a—dan-niš
o 1313	e-ta-am-ru-u-ni
o 1414	a-na LÚ^v.šá—IGI—É.GAL-MEŠ	(14) Let an order be given to the palace-overseers: when the elders pass by beneath the terrace, let them allow me to see the face of the king, my lord, and may the k[ing] look at me. Let them constantly send me word on the health of [the king, my lord].
o 1515	ṭè-mu <li>-iš-kun-nu
o 1616	ki-ma LÚ^v.AB.BA-MEŠ
Reverse
r 1r 1	ina KI.TA tam-le-e
r 22	e-te-qu
r 33	lu-ra-mu-u-ni
r 44	pa-ni ša LUGAL EN-ia
r 55	la-mur-ru ⸢LUGAL⸣
r 66	lip-la-[sa-an-ni]
r 77	DI-mu ša [LUGAL EN]-ia
r 88	ka-a-a-[ma-ni]-ú
r 99	liš-pur-[o]-u-ni
r 1010	TA^? man-ni-⸢ma IGI⸣.2-MEŠ-ia	(r 10) Upon whom are my eyes fixed? (In) that I have written, let them allow me to enter before the king and speak (with him).
r 1111	ša-kan-na
r 1212	ša áš-pur-an-ni ina IGI LUGAL
r 1313	lu-še-ri-⸢bu⸣-[ni]
r 1414	la-da-bu-[ub]

Adapted from Steven W Cole, Peter Machinist, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Priests to Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria, 13), 1998. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko and Silvie Zamazalová, 2011-13, 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/P334253/.

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