Position in chronology
SAA 17 089. Barik-il of Larak Appeals to the King in the Assembly (ABL 0344)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 17(1) [To the king], their lord: your [ser]vants, the šandabakku, and the recruitment officers. Good health to the king, our lord! May Enlil, Ninurta and Nusku bless the king, my lord! (7) The Sealanders have sent a letter to the recruitment officers. They have read it. Now we have sent the letter to the king, our lord. May the king act as he wishes. (r 1) After Bariki-il, the Larakean, escaped from the prison of Larak, he appealed to the king in the assembly of the people. Now we have sent him to the king, our lord, so the king may question him.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 17 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí-šú-nu / ⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ-ka LÚ.GÚ.EN.NA / ù LÚ.mu-šar-ki-si-MEŠ / lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-i-nu / d.EN.LÍL dMAŠ u dPA.TÚG / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia lik-ru-ub / ši-pir-ti LÚ.KUR—tam-tim-ú-a / a-na LÚ.mu-šar-ki-si-MEŠ / il-tap-ra-ú-nu / il-ta-su-šú ù a-du-u / a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / nu-ul-te-bi-il / ⸢LUGAL ki⸣ šá i-le-ʾu-ú / le-pu-uš / mba-ri-ki*—DINGIR / LÚ.UD.UD.KI-ú-a / ul-tu É—ki-li…
Scholarly note
Babylonian-language letter to Sargon II or Sennacherib, edited by Manfried Dietrich (SAA 17, 2003). ORACC text P237240.
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/P237240/..
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/P237240/.
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