4 ARMXXVI/2 414: 30 – 33 : ‘Send me a discrete scribe, that I make (him) write the message
which Sˇamasˇ has sent through my intermediary for the king.’ We do have this message: see
ARMXXVI/1 194.
5 Which may entail a greater literary quality, highlighted by Finet 1986.
6 One could cite the extreme case of some petitions where the style is particularly refined. At
Mari, there is the example of a bilingual letter (Sumerian and Akkadian), sent by a scribe who
wished to curry favour with Zimri-Lim soon after the latter’s accession to the throne (LAPO
16 22). One could also consider the letter OBTR 150 (see Foster 1993 ).
7 ARMIV 86 (= LAPO17 772).
8 ARMI 18 (= LAPO16 43).
9 Unpublished A. 3611 + (to appear in ARMXXIX).
10 ARMXXVI/2 394: 3 – 8.
11 See Charpin 2004 b.
12 This is particularly the case in some of the correspondence of Yams.um, captain of the Mari
garrison at Ilan-s.ura, see Charpin 1989.
13 ARMXXVI/1 276: 6 – 10.
14 A. 1101 (= LAPO16 230); see Sasson 1988 , esp. p. 462.
15 AnaX qibi-ma ummaY.
16 ARMXXVI/2 384: 18 ’- 19 ’.
17 ARMXXVI/1 127: 18.
18 Unpublished: A. 861 : 7 – 13 and (^1) ′– 8 ′.
19 See A. 427 , published in Charpin 1995 a; see the detailed commentary in Sasson 2002.
20 I am not talking here about the letters sent by the king to a palace official or a family member
during a journey.
21 As is the case, for example, of the ‘plaidoyer pro domo’ of Yasmah-Addu (see J.-M. Durand,
MARI 5 , p. 175 ) or ARM I 109 , after J.-M. Durand, LAPO16 70.
22 One might recall the existence of a particular seal in the ‘foreign office’ of Mari that was used
exclusively to seal letters sent by Zimri-Lim, different from the one used to seal administrative
documents: see Charpin 1992 , esp. pp. 70 – 71 , § 3. 2. 3.
23 OBTR, p. 250 no. 5.
24 ARMXXVI/2 490: 4 – 7.
25 M. 8762 , published in Charpin 2001 : 21.
26 See ARMXXVI/ 129 : 4 – 9.
27 ARMXIII 8 (= LAPO16 104).
28 The nicest example comes in the letter ARMIII 59 [= LAPO16 329] (see the commentary
by Lafont 1997 : 326 ).
29 ARMXXVI/ 187.
30 FMIII 14 : 18 – 25.
31 See especially ARMXXVI/1 168– 172.
32 ARMXXVIII 75 : 4 – 9.
33 A. 4215 (= LAPO16 65).
34 ARMXXVIII 109 : 5 – 8.
35 ARMXXVI/2 449: 7 – 12.
36 ARMXXVI/2 521: 42 – 44.
37 ARMXXVI/2 307, 308 and 309.
38 ARMXXVI/2 315: 4 – 7.
39 For example: ARMX 16 and X 136 (= LAPO18 1158and 1157 ); X 131 (= LAPO18 1154)
and XXVI/1 242. See also the case of A. 1285 and ARMXIII 10 (= LAPO16 136and 134 ).
40 ARMI 16 (= LAPO16 301): 5 – 8.
41 ARMV 78 (= LAPO17 631): 5 – 11.
42 See ARMII 79 = XXVII 69 : 29 – 33.
43 See, for example, ARMI 24 + (= LAPO 16 no. 330 ): 3 – 8 or ARMXXVI/ 125.
44 ARMX 91 (= LAPO18 1186): 3 ′– 15 ′.
45 ARMI 76 (= LAPO16 58): 20 – 29.
46 ARMXXVIII 85 : 5 – 12 and 15 – 20.
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