SAA 01 027. Give Straw or Die![via saao/saa01]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | (1) ......] must be at hand and [...! Should even one day pass by, y]ou will die! | |
o 2'2' | ||
o 3'3' | (3) I am writing to you right [now]: [as long as] I am here, [...] quickly [and ...] bales of straw [...... in your] hands [...... | |
o 4'4' | ||
o 5'5' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣-qa-rat ša ⸢ŠE⸣.IN.[NU] | |
o 6'6' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ ŠU.2-[ku-nu] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | 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/P336595/.