Position in chronology
SAA 17 048. Complaints About Landed Property (ABL 0925)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) Your servant Amel-Nabû: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: (5) Didn't the king say to me as follows: "Go, plant, fill the cellars with harvest, and eat under my protection!" Let the king's messenger come here and see how the land of my father, which the king gave back to me, has been made barren by Mannu-ki-U[rbail]. He has indeed burned my grain, my straw and [my] garlic on [...] and (said to me): "Go en[treat] the king! If the king (indeed) ga[ve you] your land, come and tak[e] your property!" (17) Now, the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ARAD-ka mLÚ—dAG a-na di-na-an / LUGAL be-lí-ia lul-lik dAG u dAMAR.UTU / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia lik-ru-bu / um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia-a-ma / LUGAL iq-ta-ba-a um-ma a-lik / e-reš e-ṣe-du ka-lak-ka-a-ti / mu-ul ù ina GIŠ.MI-ia a-kul / LÚ.A—KIN šá LUGAL lil-li-kám-ma / li-mur qaq-qar šá AD-ia šá LUGAL [o] / ú-tir-ram-ma id-din-⸢an⸣-[ni] / ak-ka-a.a-i mman-nu—ki-i*—⸢ur*⸣-[ba-il-lim] / ni-du-tu…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P238317.
Attribution
Image: 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/P238317/..
Translation excerpted from Dietrich, M. 2003. The Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib. SAA 17. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P238317/.
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