SAA 10 334. Please Reward Me Too (ABL 0525) [from physicians]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-tabni-uṣur. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula very greatly bless the king, my lord! May Bel and Nabû give long-lasting days, many years, an eternal throne, happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—tab-ni—PAB
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL
o 44	be-lí-ia a—dan-niš a—dan-niš
o 55	^dNIN.URTA u ^dgu-la a-na LUGAL
o 66	be-lí-ía a—dan-niš a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu
o 77	^dEN u ^dAG UD-me GÍD.DA-MEŠ
o 88	MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ma-aʾ-da-a-te
o 99	[GIŠ].GU.ZA ša da-ra-a-te
o 1010	ṭu-ub ŠÀ-bi ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ
o 1111	[a]-na LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 1212	[lid]-di-nu
o 1313	šum-ma ḫi-ṭa-a.a LUGAL be-lí	(13) [I]f the king, my lord, [know]s a fault committed by me, let the king not keep me alive!
o 1414	[ú]-⸢da⸣ LUGAL lu la^* ⸢ú^-bal^⸣-la^*-ṭa-ni
Reverse
r 1r 1	[x x x] ša-daq-diš	(r 1) [...] last year they [said]: "Let me give [...]," and they gave [... to] all [...]. Nabû-tartiba-uṣur, an associate of mine, got the iron [...] of the crown prince, (but) I did not get it.
r 22	[iq-ṭi-bi]-ú ma-a
r 33	[x x x] ⸢la⸣-di-ni
r 44	[a-na x x] ⸢gab⸣-bi it-ta-an-nu
r 55	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ AN.BAR ša DUMU—LUGAL
r 66	[a-na] ^m^dPA—SU—PAB
r 77	ša is-si-ia it-ta-an-nu
r 88	a-na a.a-ši la i-di-nu-ni
r 99	ša is-si-ia gab-bu ḫa-di-iu-u	(r 9) (While) all my associates are happy, I am dying of a broken heart. I have been treated as if I did not keep the watch of the king, my lord; my heart has become startled indeed, panic has seized me, I have become exceedingly afraid: may the king revive my heart vis-à-vis my colleagues!
r 1010	a-na-ku i-na ku-su-up—ŠÀ-bi
r 1111	a-mu-at ki-i ša ma-ṣar-tú
r 1212	ša LUGAL be-lí-ía la a-na-ṣar-u-ni
r 1313	e-ta-ap-šu-un-ni
r 1414	ŠÀ-bi is-su-gu a—dan-niš
r 1515	ḫi-ip—ŠÀ-bi iṣ-ṣa-ab-ta-ni
r 1616	ap-ta-làḫ a—dan-niš
Right
r.e. 17r.e. 17	LUGAL qa-an-ni mi-iḫ-ri-⸢ia^*⸣
r.e. 1818	ŠÀ-bi lu-bal-li-ṭa

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/P334358/.