MC 7, 10
The reverse contains Old Babylonian Proto-Lu, edited in MSL 12, 32 as source D 3 .
Transliteration
Hover or tap a word for its lemma and meaning.
| Obv. i | |
| 1 | [a-na ...] // [x x] ⸢x⸣-ri-a ⸢x x⸣ |
| 2 | [qí]-bí-ma |
| 3 | [um-m]a Šar-ru-um-ki-in // [be-el-k]u-nu-ma |
| 4 | [x x (x)] iq-ta-bi |
| 5 | [x x x x]-la-ak // [x x] ḫa [x] am |
| 6 | un-ne-du-uk-ki |
| 7 | i-na a-ma-ri-ku-nu |
| 8 | i-na ma-tim |
| 9 | ša An!-nu!-ni-tum |
| 10 | i-bé-el-lu-ši-ma |
| 11 | Šar-ru-um-ki-in |
| 12 | ù-wa-e-ru-ši |
| 13 | ⸢x⸣ [...] |
Translation
Obv. i
1 [To …]
2 speak:
3 Thus says Sargon, you[r lord]:
4 "… has spoken.
5 …
6–7 when you see my letter
8 in the land
9 which Annunītum
10 rules and
11 which Sargon
12 governs
13 …
Commentary
7: Westenholz 1997, 142 notes that the loan word unnedukku(m) in the phrase unnedukkī ina amāri is restricted to the "southern tradition of Old Babylonian letter-writing," for which see CAD U/W 161f. But cf. Michalowski 2011, 24 for the possible use of unnedukku(m) in Akkadian in Northern Babylonia in the sense of "literary epistle."
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