Position in chronology
SAA 16 045. Complaints from Naṣibina (ABL 1371)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 16(Beginning destroyed) (1) The scribe [...] left [his post and did not do] the king's work, saying: "Why [...] my father?" (4) They ap[pointed] me in his stead, (and) I stood by and [served] your father. I [...ed] in Naṣibina, [GN] (and) Hamedê; I [did] work for the king (and) [gave] booty to the king. (10) Last year in Tebet (X), [when I was] in the presence of the king, my lord, [...] report of the Palace [...]. I exacted silver from the me[rchants] and [gave] it to the king. (15) The [...] of the king, [my] lord, [...] had no[t] yet [...], [...] to Barhalza, (when) the scribe returned to my…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 16 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
LÚ.A.BA [x x x] a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ur-ta-am-me dul-li LUGAL [la e-pu-uš] / ma-a a-ta-a AD-u-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / ia-a-ši ku-um-mu-šu ip-[taq-du-ni] / a-ti-it-zi AD-ka ⸢as?⸣-[x x x] / ina URU.na-ṣi-bi-na ina ⸢URU⸣.[x x x] / ina URU.ḫa-me-de-e ⸢ú⸣-[x x x x] / dul-lu a-na LUGAL e-[ta-pa-áš] / LÚ.ḫu-ub-tú a-na LUGAL [a-ti-din] / MU.IM.MA ina ITI.AB [ki-i?] / ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia [a-na-ku-ni?] / ṭè-mu ša…
Scholarly note
Political letter at the court of Esarhaddon, edited by Mikko Luukko & Greta Van Buylaere (SAA 16, 2002). ORACC text P334869.
Attribution
Image: 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/P334869/..
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. & Van Buylaere, G. 2002. The Political Correspondence of Esarhaddon. SAA 16. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa16/P334869/.
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