SAA 17 059. The Letters of Nabu-taklak are Written by his Delegates (ABL 0524)[via saao/saa17]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL—GIN LUGAL ŠÚ um-ma LÚ.ARAD-MEŠ-ka	(1) To Sargon, king of the universe: thus say your servants Ha'il-il and Zabdi-il, who guard the fortress of Šabhanu for the king, their lord. The king's fortress is well. Good health to the king, our lord!
o 22	^mḫa-il—DINGIR ù ^mzab-di—DINGIR
o 33	šá URU.bir-ti šá URU.šab-ḫa-a-ni
o 44	a-na LUGAL be-lí-šú-nu i-na-aṣ-ṣa-ru
o 55	šul-mu a-na URU.bir-ti šá LUGAL
o 66	lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-i-ni
o 77	ši-pir-ti šá ^m^dAG—tak-lak	(7) The letter(s) which Nabû-taklak sends to the king — it is not Nabû-taklak (himself) but his delegates who write them. And what they are (now) writing to the king, viz., "Remove the prefect from Bit-Dakuri!" — the king should write to them: "Why do you write (about) injustice? [If he] is doing injustice to you, [br]ing [...]!"
o 88	a-na LUGAL ú-šeb-bi-la
o 99	ul ^m^dAG—tak-lak ki-i i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-ši
o 1010	LÚ.qí-pa-ni-šú i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-ši
o 1111	ù šá a-na LUGAL i-šap-pa-ru-ú-ni
o 1212	um-ma LÚ.šak^-nu URU^.É—^mda-kur
o 1313	šu-ú-ṣi LUGAL liš-pur-áš-šú-nu-⸢ti⸣
o 1414	um-ma ⸢mi-nu⸣-ú ḫa-ba-lu
o 1515	⸢ta^⸣-šaṭ-ṭa-[ra ki-i i]-⸢ḫab^⸣-bi-lu-ku-nu^*-[ši]
o 1616	[x x x x x x x x šu]-bi-la
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x] ⸢il⸣-la-ku [x x x x x x]	(r 1) [...] they are going
r 2'2'	[a-na^?] ⸢UGU⸣-ḫi-šú-nu [x x x x]	(r 2) [...] against them [...]
r 3'3'	[x ina] ⸢UGU^*⸣-ḫi a-na [x x x x]	(r 3) [...] that is why they write to [the king]: "[...]"
r 4'4'	[i]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ru-ni um-⸢ma⸣ [x x x]	(r 3) [...] that is why they write to [the king]: "[...]"
r 5'5'	[x x] ⸢um⸣-ma ni-i-[nu x x x]	(r 5) [...] "We are [...]"
r 6'6'	i-⸢na⸣ É šá LUGAL ni-ip-pi-[ir-šú-nu-ti]	(r 6) "We shall nouri[sh them] in the house of the king."
r 7'7'	LUGAL a-na LÚ.šak-ni liš-pu-ram-⸢ma⸣	(r 7) Let the king write to the prefect that he should place his messenger in Bit-Tammeš-šama' to keep the barley for the king.
r 8'8'	LÚ.A—KIN-šú ina É—tam-meš—ša-ma-aʾ [o]
r 9'9'	liš-kun-ma ŠE.BAR a-na LUGAL
r 10'10'	lu-ki-il
	rest uninscribed

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/P237833/.