SAA 01 077. On Bronze Panthers and a Wood Store (ABL 0091)[via saao/saa01]
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o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | (6) The stands of both bronze panthers are quite attractive; they are working on minor improvements in their finish. | |
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | (10) As to the wood store for the iron brazier in the palace of the Inner City about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, I consulted the mayors, masons and elders (who told me this): | |
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | (14) "The chief of public works will do the demolition and the brickwork; the sons of the palace maids will supply the materials needed and plaster its roof; if a beam is broken, the masons of the Inner City will supply the replacement." | |
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
o 1818 | ||
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b.e. 19b.e. 19 | ||
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r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | (r 4) Now, I have told the chief of public works to pull it down and buid it up, but he does not agree (but says): "[.....] I will supply the replacement for its broken beams." | |
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | (r 9) This year may (well) pass (before the work is done); the king my lord will come in Shebat (XI) and settle (the issue). | |
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P334040/.