SAA 16 115. These Men are Drunkards (ABL 0085)


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-iqiša. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mEN—BA-šá
o 33	^dPA ^dAMAR.UTU a-na MAN EN-ía
o 44	lik-ru-bu
o 55	ARAD-MEŠ ša É—EN-MEŠ-ia	(5) The servants of my lord's household who(se status) the king, my lord, has determined (as of) today:
o 66	ša LUGAL be-lí UD-mu
o 77	an-ni-ú ú-par-ri-su-u-ni
o 88	^mtab-URU-a.a DUMU ^mEN—KASKAL—PAB—PAB	(8) Tabalayu son of Bel-Harran-ahu-uṣur, whom the king, my lord, promoted to the rank of cohort commander; Nabû-sagib, whom the king, my lord, promoted to the rank of permanent 'third man'; (and) Atamar-Marduk, whom the king, my lord, promoted to the rank of bodyguard —
o 99	ša a-na LÚ^v.GAL—ki-ṣir-u-tú
o 1010	LUGAL be-lí ú-še-lu-u-ni
o 1111	^m^dPA—sa-kib ša TA^v LÚ^v.03.U₅-MEŠ
o 1212	ka-a.<a>-ma-nu-te
o 1313	LUGAL be-lí ú-še-lu-u-ni
Reverse
r 1r 1	^mIGI.LAL—^dŠÚ
r 22	ša TA^v LÚ^v.qur-ZAG-MEŠ
r 33	LUGAL BE ú-še-lu-u-ni
r 44	03 an-nu-te ERIM-MEŠ	(r 4) these three men are drunkards. When they are drunk, none of them can turn his iron sword away from his colleague.
r 55	šá-ak-ra-nu-tú šú-nu
r 66	ki-ma i-šak-ki-ru
r 77	LÚ GÍR AN.BAR
r 88	TA^v pa-an mì-ḫi-ri-šu
r 99	la ú-sa-aḫ-<ḫa>-ra
r 1010	a-bu-tú ša ú-du-ú-ni	(r 10) I have written to the king, my lord, (about) a matter that I know. The king, my lord, may do as he deems best.
r 1111	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia
r 1212	as-sa-pa-ra
Right
r.e. 13r.e. 13	LUGAL be-lí
r.e. 1414	ki-i ša i-la-u-ni
Edge
e. 1e. 1	le-pu-uš

Adapted from Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere, The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria, 16), 2002. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P334034/.