SAA 17 007. Providing Food for Starving Tribes (CT 54 042)


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ia	(1) [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servant Nabû-a]hhe-lumur. [Good health to] the king, my lord! The city and the guard [of the king], my lord, are well. [The tro]ops of the king, my lord, are well.
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^m^dAG^?]—⸢ŠEŠ⸣-MEŠ—lu-mur
o 33	[lu-ú šul-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 44	[šul-mu a]-⸢na⸣ URU u EN.NUN
o 55	[šá LUGAL be]-⸢lí⸣-ia šul-mu
o 66	[a-na] ⸢ERIM⸣-MEŠ šá LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 77	[min-de-e-ma] LUGAL be-lí i-qab-bi	(7) [Perhaps] the king, my lord, [will] say: "What [news] is there?"
o 88	[um-ma] ⸢mi⸣-nu-ú
o 99	[ṭè-mu]-ma NINDA-⸢ḪI.A⸣
o 1010	[LÚ.ḫa-mar]-na-a.a-a	(10) When the [Hamaran]eans, [the] Lihuateans, [the] Rabileans (and) their people were starving for (lack of) bread, they entered [...], saying: "[May] the king [sen]d [bread] to us and [...] them with [the Hat]alleans
o 1111	⸢LÚ⸣.li-ḫu-a-ta-a.a
o 1212	[LÚ].ra-bi-la-a.a
o 1313	[UN-MEŠ]-⸢šú⸣-nu ki-i
o 1414	[o] ⸢ib⸣-ru-ú a-na
Reverse
r 1r 1	[x x x x x x]
r 22	[x x x x x x]
r 33	i-ter-bu [x x x]
r 44	um-ma LUGAL a-⸢na⸣
r 55	⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-in-⸢ni⸣ [NINDA-ḪI.A]
r 66	[liš-pu]-ra-⸢ma⸣
r 77	[x x] it-ti
r 88	[LÚ.ḫa]-⸢tal⸣-la-a.a
r 99	[x x x]-šú-⸢nu-tu⸣
r 1010	[x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x]
r 1111	[x x x x]-⸢ú⸣
		(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Manfried Dietrich, The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria, 17), 2003. 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/P238121/.