SAA 10 165. Petition Concerning Lost Property (ABL 0228) [from astrologers]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nergal-eṭir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dU.GUR—KAR-ir
o 33	lu-ú DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 44	^dAG u^* ^dAMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL
o 55	be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu
o 66	06^* MU.AN.NA EN.NUN	(6) For 6 years I have been guarding Aššur-etel-šamê-erṣeti-muballissu, and Bel and Nabû have provided good health.
o 77	šá ^maš-šur—e-tel—AN—KI—TI.LA.BI
o 88	at-ta-ṣar^* šul-mu
o 99	^dEN u ^dAG ⸢il^-tak^-nu⸣
o 1010	šá ⸢be^-lí^-a^* x⸣+[x x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[ana]-ku^* [x x x x x x x x]
r 2'2'	^dEN ù ^d⸢AG⸣ [x x x x x]	(r 2) (By) Bel and Na[bû ...], your gods: the king, my lord, is merciful. Let the king send a bodyguard with me, so I may go and bring out my brother and retrieve my fortune. Let me go and come back quickly!
r 3'3'	DINGIR-MEŠ-ka LUGAL be-lí-[a]
r 4'4'	re-ma-nu šu-ú LUGAL^* LÚ.qur-bu-⸢tú⸣
r 5'5'	it-ti-ia liš-pur-ma
r 6'6'	lul-lik-ma ŠEŠ-ú-a lu-še-ṣa-a
r 7'7'	ù NÍG.ŠID-ia lu-uš^*-šá-a
r 8'8'	ḫa-an-ṭiš lul-lik lul-li-ka
r 9'9'	ul ina KUR-šú ki-i áš-ba-ku	(r 9) Was it not when I was living in his country, in the land of Yašubu, that the son of Ahu-leʾi ...? Why [......] on the servants?
r 10'10'	ina KUR.ia-šu-bu šá DUMU-šú
Right
r.e. 11r.e. 11	šá ^mPAB—le lu ba ḫu
r.e. 1212	šu-ú mi-nam-ma
r.e. 1313	ina UGU LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ
Edge
e. 1e. 1	[x x x x] KUR a-du-ú LÚ.GAL—É-šú	(e. 1) Now then let the king ask his major-domo [...]; he knows all (about it).
e. 22	[x x x] ⸢x⸣ LUGAL liš-al gab-bu i-di

Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, 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/P237969/.