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SAA 17 007

  • CDLI P238121
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 01945
  • Primary publication(s): CT 54 042

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Babylonian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Babylonian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
  • Dated: no

Sender Information

  • Sender: [Nabu-a]hhe-lumur
  • Location: Sippar
  • Recipient: [the kin]g
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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 mdAG?]—⸢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/.