SAA 21 132. Let Me Raise 4,500 Soldiers (CT 54 152)[via saao/saa21]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
o 2'2' | [x x]-ú [x x x x x x] | |
o 3'3' | ⸢ši*⸣-me* [x x x x x x] | (3') [p]rice [......] |
o 4'4' | (4') and t[o ......] | |
o 5'5' | ḫa-qa [x x x x ERIM]-⸢MEŠ⸣ LUGAL | (5') to mix [... the] king’s [me]n |
o 6'6' | (6') at [my] disposal [...] | |
o 7'7' | 03-me ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] | (7') 300 soldier[s ......] |
o 8'8' | ḫa-ri-[x x x x x x] | |
o 9'9' | i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
Bottom | ||
b.e. 10'b.e. 10' | ul-tu 02 [x x x x x] | (10') from two [......] |
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | lu-uš-šá-am-⸢ma⸣ [x x x x] | (r 1) let me raise and [...] |
r 22 | 04-lim 05-me ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x] | (r 2) 4,500 soldier[s ...] |
r 33 | (r 3) The king, my lord, knows t[h]at [...] | |
r 44 | ḫe-pa-a-ti ù šur-[x x] | (r 4) broken and [...] |
r 55 | (r 5) are ful[l] to the brim. | |
r 66 | ||
r 77 | [x] ⸢x⸣-ku-nu i-na-zi-ru | (r 7) [The ...s] curse your [...] |
r 88 | [x x x]-⸢za?⸣-za* | |
rest broken away |
Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part I: Letters from Assyria, Babylonia, and Vassal States (State Archives of Assyria, 21), 2018. Adapted by Jamie Novotny and lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P238512/.