SAA 19 045. Building Works in Damascus (CTN 5 p. 181)[via saao/saa19]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
o 2'2' | ⸢ú⸣-di-⸢na⸣ [la x x x x x] | (2) [not] yet [......] |
o 3'3' | 01 lim LÚv.⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | (3) 1,000 (bricks) the [... official] |
o 4'4' | ⸢x⸣ ma an ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
o 5'5' | (5) We are building [......]. We have finish[ed] the ci[ty wall] and are digging [the moat]. | |
o 6'6' | ||
o 7'7' | (7) As t[o the news] of Damasc[us, PN], the commander-of-fifty of Ata[...], has ru[n away] to me. [I am herewith sen]di[ng him to] the king, [my] l[ord ...] | |
o 8'8' | ša URU.di-maš-⸢qa⸣ [x x] | |
o 9'9' | LÚv.GAL—50 ša ma-⸢ta⸣-[x x] | |
o 10'10' | ||
o 11'11' | ||
o 12'12' | [ú]-⸢se-bi⸣-[la x x] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
r 2'2' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] ⸢ma-a x⸣+[x x x x x] | (r 2) [..., sa]ying: "[... I have g]one up fr[om ...]; (thus) they should go up accordingly." |
r 3'3' | ||
r 4'4' | (r 4) (But) from who[m] I am to give him barley? | |
r 5'5' | ||
r 6'6' | (r 6) Let the k[ing, my lord], write me [how much barley there] is left. | |
r 7'7' | ||
r 8'8' | (r 8) The kin[g ......] | |
r 9'9' | (r 9) which in the city of [......] | |
r 10'10' | (r 10) the k[ing, my] lord [......] | |
r 11'11' | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
r 12'12' | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
rest broken away |
Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P393621/.