SAA 13 080. Request for a Personal Audience with the King (ABL 0377)
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (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 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | (11) The face of the king my lord has been seen by very many (people). | |
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | (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 | ||
o 1616 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | (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 | ||
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | ||
r 1414 |
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/.