SAA 19 129. Failed Efforts to Win Hearts and Minds in Babylon (CTN 5 p. 21)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia]	(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king, my lord!]
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^mx x x]
o 33	[lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia]
o 44	[ša LUGAL] ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-⸢ni⸣	(4) [Concerning what the king w]rote to me: "Write the names of all the citizens of Babylon who have come to my side in a letter and send it to me!"
o 55	⸢ma⸣-a LÚ^v.DUMU-MEŠ—TIN.⸢TIR⸣.KI
o 66	mar ina ir-ti-ía
o 77	il-li-ku-ni-ni
o 88	MU-MEŠ-šú-nu
o 99	ina ŠÀ-bi e-gír-ti
o 1010	šu-ṭur
Bottom
b.e. 11b.e. 11	še-bi-la
Reverse
r 1r 1	mi-nim-mi-ni	(r 1) Nobody has come.
r 22	la il-li-ka	(r 1) Nobody has come.
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	rest uninscribed

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. 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/P393659/.