
Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL EN-ia]	(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! The watch of the des[ert is strict]; the king, my lord, can be [pleased].
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^mEN—liq-bi^?]
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia]
o 44	EN.NUN.NA ša ⸢mad⸣-[bar dan-nat]
o 55	lib-bu ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia lu DÙG.GA-ba]
o 66	LUGAL be-lí iq-ṭí-bi-[a ma-a a-na]	(6) The king my lord ordered [me to] give bread to the chariot troops. Now, (when) [PN] came, I told him [...] but he said: "The king has given orders to me and I will take two [month's worth] of each (provision)." I did not agree to give it to him, so he went and opened a silo in one of my villages, brought in his measurers and poured out [x] sound men's worth of (grain).
o 77	LÚ^v.GIŠ.GIGIR-MEŠ NINDA-MEŠ di-⸢na⸣ [ú-ma-a ^mx x x]
o 88	i-tal-ka aq-ṭí-ba-áš-šú [mu-ku x x x]
o 99	ma-a a-na a.a-ši LUGAL ṭè-⸢mu⸣ [x x x]
o 1010	i-sa-kan-a-ni ma-a ša 02-a.⸢a^*⸣ [ITI-MEŠ x x]
o 1111	a-na-áš-ši la a-ma-gúr la a-da-na-áš-šú
o 1212	i-tal-ka ina ŠÀ-bi 01-en URU-MEŠ-ni-ia
o 1313	pa-da-ku ip-te-te LÚ^v.ma-di-da-ni-šú
o 1414	⸢ú⸣-se-ri-di ša ERIM-MEŠ šal-mu-te
o 1515	[x x] ik-ta-ra-ra a-ta-la-ka	(15) I went and remonstrated him, saying: "Why did you self- willedly, [with]out the permission of the deputy (governor) open the king's granaries?" He would not look me in the eye [but said]:
o 1616	[i]-⸢si⸣-šú a-du-bu-ub mu-ku
o 1717	[a]-⸢ta⸣-a gi-ri ra-mi-ni-ka
o 1818	[ša] ⸢la⸣ LÚ^v.02-e kar-me ša LUGAL
o 1919	[ta]-⸢ap⸣-ti IGI.2^-šú^ ina UGU-ḫi-ia
Bottom
b.e. 20b.e. 20	⸢la⸣-a ik-ru-ru
b.e. 2121	[ma-a] ITI.BARAG šam-mu	(21) "My (supply of) grass diminished in Nisan, and horses keep coming to me; I c[an]not [cope]."
b.e. 2222	[it]-tú-uq-ta ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ
Reverse
r 1r 1	[ma]-a i-ma-⸢qa^-tu^⸣-ú-ni
r 22	⸢la⸣-a ú-⸢šam⸣-[ṣa] ⸢ša⸣ ITI.BARAG gab-bi^*-šú	(r 2) [...] poured out the [...] of the entire month of Nisan; [Ašš]ur-dalal poured out 70 [days'] worth, [...] 20 days' worth and (now) he poured out that of Sivan. For his newly arrived horses, he deducted one half of the fodder, but he did not deduct the other half.
r 33	[ki]-su-[tú ^mx x x]+⸢x⸣ ik-ta-ra-ra
r 44	ša 70 [UD-MEŠ ^maš]-⸢šur^?—da⸣-lal^*
r 55	ša 20 UD^*-MEŠ-⸢ma^?⸣ [x x x] ⸢ik⸣-ta-ru
r 66	šu-ú ša ITI.⸢SIG₄ ik⸣-ta-ra-ra
r 77	ša ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ-šú ma-aq-tú-te
r 88	me-šil ŠE.ki-si-te ik-ta-sap
r 99	me-šil-ma la-a ik-su-⸢pu⸣ ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ	(r 9) The king, my lord, did give the horses; [......] op[ened] silos [......] I speak wit[h them ......
r 1010	LUGAL be-lí i-ti-din [x x x] ⸢nu^?⸣
r 1111	pa-da-ka-te up-[ta-te x x]
r 1212	a-da-bu-ub i-⸢si⸣-[x x x x x]
r 1313	⸢ša⸣ [x] ⸢li^*⸣ [x x x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P334715/.

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