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~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 1
SAA 01 204. Tracking a Ninevite Scribe (ABL 0706+)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Zeru-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to Erra-gamil, the Ninevite scribe about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "He is there; summon him, get hold of him and send him to [the revi]ew!" — (10) I summoned him, and thoroughly questioned Nabû-šumu-uṣur and the scribes from Nemed-Ištar and Laqê, servants of the king my lord, (who told me): (r 1) "He came two years ago, got a position with Ilai-Bel, and worked for a year on his behalf. Last year, while Ilai-Bel still was alive, a tracker came and took him away. They deported him to the Land be…
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