SAA 19 167. Dying of Hunger (CTN 5 p. 224)[via saao/saa19]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | (1) [The king, my lord], gave pa[ck animals] into my care but I am not able to take care of them; they will die o[f hu]nger. | |
o 2'2' | ||
o 3'3' | ||
o 4'4' | ||
o 5'5' | (5) I have used up the gr[ain ratio]ns that the king, my lord, gave me, having giv[en] them [to] the local people, the specialists in the service of the treasurer and the quartermaster corps of the P[alace]. | |
o 6'6' | ||
o 7'7' | ||
o 8'8' | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | 01 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ la*-din*-⸢ni⸣ [o] | (r 3) I can give out one homer of barley, but the king, my lord, knows what the governor of Arbela can [affo]rd. |
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) The Hindareans (and) [the H]atalleans [...] | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ mki*-⸢i*⸣+[x x] | (r 8) Ki[...] |
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/P393664/.