SAA 19 198. Building a Fort (CTN 5 p. 237)[via saao/saa19]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x] ŠÀ? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
o 2'2' | (2) [Con]cerning the city Issete [and ......], about which the king wrote to me: "[......] | |
o 3'3' | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
o 4'4' | pi-⸢it⸣-ti 05-ma LÚ.⸢ERIM-MEŠ x⸣ bi? ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | (4) according to the same 5 men [......] |
o 5'5' | (5) water for them to drink ...[... ...].... | |
o 6'6' | ša ni-ra-ṣip-u-ni ta-ri-⸢ṣi⸣ [x]+⸢x-a ú? x⸣-ti-ma | (6) What we are building is all right [......] |
o 7'7' | É.GAL ⸢ki?⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ ma URU.bir-⸢te? URU.x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-a-te | (7) a palace [......]. We are also building a fort [...] and will pl[ace] guardsmen there. [L]et pack animals for the guards come up here [...]. |
o 8'8' | ||
o 9'9' | ||
o 10'10' | [x x x x] ⸢le⸣-li-ú-⸢ni ša LUGAL⸣ | (10) As to what the king, [my lord, wrote to me]: "The anima[ls ......] |
o 11'11' | [be-lí iš-pur-an-ni] ⸢ma-a ú-ma-am⸣ [x x x x] | |
o 12'12' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | minimal traces of 8 lines; no copy |
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/P393665/.