SAA 01 153. Sidonites in Nineveh (ABL 0175)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Nabû-riba-ahhe. Good health to the crown prince, my lord! The guards are very well.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^m^dPA—SU—PAB-MEŠ
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na DUMU—LUGAL EN-ía
o 44	DI-mu a-na ma-ṣar-a-te
o 55	a—dan-niš
o 66	URU.ṣi-du-na-a.a	(6) The Sidonites and the(ir) heads did not go to Calah with the crown prince, my lord, nor are they serving in the garrison of Nineveh. They loiter in the center of the town, each in his lodging place.
o 77	LÚ^v.SAG.⸢DU⸣-MEŠ-te
o 88	la-a TA^v DUMU—LUGAL
o 99	EN-ia ina URU.kàl-ḫa
Bottom
b.e. 10b.e. 10	il-li-ku
Reverse
r 1r 1	la-a ina ma-ṣar-te
r 22	ša URU.ni-nu-a
r 33	i-za-zu
r 44	qab-si URU i-du-lu^*
r 55	ia-mu-tu
r 66	ina É—ub-re-e-šú

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334120/.