SAA 05 256. Problems with Sheep (ABL 1288)[via saao/saa05]
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oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | (1) [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good heal]th t[o the king, my lord]! | |
o 2'2' | (2) [As] to the sheep of [... about which the king, my lord], wrote [me]: "Why do [yo]u withhold the sheep fr[om ...]?" — | |
o 3'3' | ||
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o 5'5' | (5) it is the king, [my] lo[rd], who has wi[thheld] the [sh]eep for his gods! If he does not add to them, (how) can I hold back their shepherds? | |
o 6'6' | ||
o 7'7' | ||
o 8'8' | ||
o 9'9' | (9) Nabû-zeru-iddina had an audience with me, saying: "Ša-ili-dubbu has driven away [she]ep; 1,300 ṣu'bu sheep | |
o 10'10' | ||
o 11'11' | ||
o 12'12' | ||
o 13'13' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ an-nu-ti ⸢x x x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣ | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x]-⸢da*⸣-aʾ iq-ṭi-[ba-šú-nu] | (r 1) [...-ya]da' sa[id to them]: "[Co]me and graze!" |
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r 3'3' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni ⸢is⸣ ṭè-e-[mu] | (r 3) [Let ... give] them or[ders; i]f it pleases the king, let them graze the sheep and [goats] at their disposal [in the s]teppe, where my sheep [are being g]razed. |
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r 7'7' | [x x]-MEŠ pa-⸢na⸣-tu-šú-nu li-ri-ʾu | |
r 8'8' | (r 8) [As to what the king], my [lo]rd, [said] about Nabû-zeru-iddina: "When he [...] before [...] servant[s ...], he said [to them ...] | |
r 9'9' | ||
r 10'10' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ma-a i-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
r 11'11' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ iq-ṭi-ba-[šú-nu ma-a] | |
r 12'12' | [x x x x]-MEŠ ša [x x x x] | |
rest broken away |
Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P334831/.