SAA 01 210. Measuring the Patti-Illil Canal (ABL 0621+)[via saao/saa01]
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o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, [our lord]: Your servants [Nabû-pašir] and Nabû-dur-ma[kie]. Good health to [the king, our lord]! May Sin and N[ikkal] bless the king, our lord! | |
o 22 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka m[x x x x] | |
o 33 | ||
o 44 | (4) As to the ditch about which the king wrote to us, we made a start on the ditch on the 10th, and on the 8th, as soon as we had got the men organized, we started measuring the Patti-Illil canal. As soon as we have found out its measurements and where it is easy and where difficult (to navigate), we shall write again to the king, my lord. | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | UD 08-KÁM ina UGU ma-da-a-di* | |
o 1515 | ||
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b.e. 16b.e. 16 | ||
b.e. 1717 | ||
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r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
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r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) Right now Nabû-bel-šumate of Birat is going to appeal to the king about Galṣabri, a town of his; [...] (grain) depots [......] in his hands. The king [our] lord [......] men [......] with us [...... | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | ||
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 | ||
r 1313 | LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x] | |
r 1414 | i-se-e-ni [x x x x] | |
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/P393866/.