Position in chronology
SAA 15 030. The Son of Yakin is in Babylon; I Cannot March to Meturna (ABL 0455)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(1) To [the king, my lord]: your servant [Nabû-belu-ka''in]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! (4) Concerning what the king, my lord, w[rote to me]: "I [gave] you [explicit orde]rs regarding the work on [...], but you do not obey [me]" — if I did not obey the king, my lord, whom else would I obey? Now, the king, my lord, has (already) three or four times written to me in this manner; how can I live? My heart does not beat, blood has dried up in my veins. (15) I do my work like my equals. I am not the first among them, nor am I the worst; I do as they do. Why does the king, my lord, single…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na [LUGAL be-lí-ia] / ARAD-ka m[dAG—EN—GIN-in] / lu-u DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL be-li-ía] / ša LUGAL be-lí ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] / ma-a ina UGU dul₆-li ⸢ša*⸣ [x x x] / bir-ti IGI.2-MEŠ-ka ⸢un⸣-[ta-di]-⸢id*⸣ / ma-a la ta-šam-⸢man*⸣-[ni] / ša a-na LUGAL EN-ia la a-šam-⸢mu*⸣-ni / a-na man-ni-ma aḫ—ḫur la-áš-me / an-nu-rig 03-šú 04-šú / LUGAL be-lí a-ki an-ni-⸢ie⸣-e / i-šá-pa-ra a-ke-e la-ab-laṭ / a-li…
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P334316.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334316/..
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P334316/.
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