SAA 15 026. Harvesting in Dur-Bel-ila’i and Lubda (ABL 1191)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL be]-⸢lí⸣-ía	(1) [To the king], my [lor]d: [your servant Nabû]-belu-ka''in. [Good health to the kin]g, my lord!
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^m^dPA]—EN—GIN
o 33	[lu-u DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía
o 44	[is—su-ri LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí i-qab-bi	(4) [Perhaps the king], my [lord], says: "[What are y]ou doing?" —
o 55	[ma-a mì-nu] ⸢te^*⸣-ep-pa-áš
o 66	[x x x x] at-tal-ka	(6) [...] I came
o 77	[x x x x]-pa-ni ki-i a-ḫa-a-a-iš	(7) [...] together
o 88	[x x am]—mar^* ib-šal-u-ni	(8) [... wh]atever was boiled
o 99	[x x x] e-ṣi-di	(9) [...] has been harvested.
o 1010	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ta ap-ti-rik	(10) I have blocked [...]
o 1111	[ina URU].BÀD—EN—DINGIR-a.a a-na-ku	(11) I am [in] Dur-Bel-ila'i.
o 1212	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ TA^v URU.zab-ban	(12) [...] from Zabban
o 1313	[x x] ⸢ša^*⸣ in-gal-lu AN.BAR	(13) [...] iron sickle
o 1414	[x x x]-ku^* TA^v URU.lu-ub-da	(14) [When] I [com]e from Lubda,
o 1515	[x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni ŠE.BURU₁₄-šú-nu	(15) [...] their harvest
o 1616	[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ba-[áš-ši]	(16) [...] the[re is]
o 1717	[x x x x x] ⸢an⸣ [x x x]	(16) [...] the[re is]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)
Reverse
rr	uninscribed

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P334781/.