SAA 05 241. A Babylonian Asks for Audience (ABL 0522)

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL be--ia

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord!

o 22

ARAD-ka mdIM

o 33

lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL

o 44

be--ia

o 55

DUMU.DINGIR.RA.KI

(5) A Babylonian has come to me, saying: "I have things to say; let them take me to the Palace"

o 66

šu-u ina UGU-ḫi-ia

o 77

it-tal-ka ma-a di-bi

o 88

ina KA-ia ma-a ina É.GAL

o 99

lu-bi-lu-u-ni

o 1010

ú-ma-a an-nu-rig

(10) now then I am sending him to the king, my lord; let the king, my lord, ask him what he has to say.

o 1111

ina pa-an LUGAL be--ia

o 1212

ú-se-bi-la-šu

o 1313

LUGAL be- liš-al-šu

o 1414

-nu ša di-bi-šú-u-ni

Reverse
r 1r 1

UD 28-KAM TAv ŠÀ

(r 1) I sent him to the king, my lord, on the 28th from Zaddi.

r 22

URU.za-ad-di

r 33

ina pa-an LUGAL be--ia

r 44

ú-se-bi-la-šu


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/P334357/.