SAA 17 096. Giving People for People (ABL 0849)[via saao/saa17]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Lanšê. Good health to the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord, for the well-being of the king, my lord:
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mla-an-še-e
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 44	um-ma a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia-a-ma
o 55	um-ma a-na DI-mu LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 66	ú-ma-a [ina] UGU-ḫi ERIM-MEŠ	(6) Now, concerning the people of whom the king, my lord, wrote: "They are servants of Zeru-ibni; give them [ba]ck to him!" — there are no servants of Zeru-ibni in (my) presence. In reality, the two men are Damuneans, vanguards of the king, my lord.
o 77	šá LUGAL be-lí-a iš-pur um-ma
o 88	ARAD-MEŠ [šá ^m]NUMUN—ib-ni šú-nu
o 99	um-ma [tir]-⸢ri⸣-ma in-na-áš-šú
o 1010	ARAD-MEŠ šá ^mNUMUN—ib-ni
o 1111	ina pa-ni [ia]-a-nu kit-ti
o 1212	02 ERIM-MEŠ LÚ.da-mu-na-a.a
o 1313	a-lik pa^?-nu-ta^? šá LUGAL be-lí-ía
o 1414	šú-nu ŠEŠ-ME-šú-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]	(14) Their brothers [...]
o 1515	^mNUMUN—ib-ni a-na [x x x x]	(15) Zeru-ibni to [...]
o 1616	ki-i dib-bu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]	(16) In case a word [...]
Reverse		(16) In case a word [...]
r 1r 1	ù ERIM-MEŠ a-kan^*-[na x x]	(r 1) and the men here [...]
r 22	ki-lal-le-e ù [x x x]	(r 2) both and [...]
r 33	EN—MUN-ḪI.A-šú-nu EN—⸢x⸣+[x x]	(r 3) they are (my) friends and owners of [...]
r 44	šú-nu it-ti LÚ.ḫa-a-lu [x]	(r 4) I have handed them over with the forces (sent) to the governor of Damascus. If it is agreeable to the king, my lord, I shall give Zeru-ibni soldiers for the people, or, at the king my lord's command, people for people. There are however no servants of his in (my) possession.
r 55	šá a-na LÚ.EN.NAM šá
r 66	URU.du-um-ma-šaq-qa
r 77	at-ta-din-su-šú-nu-tú
r 88	ki-i pa-an LUGAL be-lí-ia
r 99	ma-ḫír ERIM-MEŠ^* a-ki^*
r 1010	UN-MEŠ^* a-na ^mNUMUN—ib-ni^*
r 1111	lud-din ina UGU-ḫi pi-i
r 1212	šá LUGAL be-lí-ia UN^-MEŠ^ a-ki^*
r 1313	UN-MEŠ^* lud-din ARAD-MEŠ-šú
r 1414	ina pa-ni-<ia> ia-a-nu
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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/P237832/.