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SAA 05 056

Reference

Object

Inscription

SAA 05 056. Master Builders and Apprentices (CT 53 033)[via saao/saa05]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL be--ia

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord!

o 22

ARAD-ka m-šurBÀDIGI-ia

o 33

lu-ú šul-mu a-na LUGAL be--ia

o 44

ina UGU .TIN-MEŠ ša LUGAL be-

(4) As to the master builders concerning whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "Give junior ones to the magnates, so they can perform their work assignment with their help"

o 55

-pur-an-ni ma-a a-na .GAL-MEŠ QÀL-MEŠ

o 66

di-i-ni ma-a pil-ku-šú-nu ina ŠÀ-bi

o 77

le-pu- 16 .TIN-MEŠ-ni-ia

o 88

03 ina pa-an .600—É.GAL

(8) (out of) my 16 master builders three are with the palace herald, three are working in the centre [of the city], and ten are engaged in bricking my work allocation of the city wall. (This makes) a total of 16 master builders engaged in work.

o 99

03 ina MURUB₄ [URU] dul₆-lu e-pu-

o 1010

10 ša pil-ki [o] ina BÀD

o 1111

i-ra-ṣip-u-ni PAB 16 .TIN-MEŠ

o 1212

ša dul₆-lu e-pa-áš-šú-u-ni

o 1313

ù DUMU-MEŠ-šú-nu QÀL-MEŠ

(13) As for their junior sons, [they are] apprenti[ces], incapable of doing any (serious) work; it is not within their understanding. They just carry chests af[ter them].

o 1414

.tal-mi-da-[ni šu-nu]

o 1515

dul₆-lu mi-mi-[ni la e-pu-šú]

o 1616

ina ŠÀ-bi-šú*-[nu]

o 1717

la ḫa-ki-[im]

Reverse
r 1r 1

ú*-ni-na-a-te ina i*da*-[tu-šú-nu]

r 22

i-za-bi-lu mu-ku dul₆-[lu ša]

(r 2) I said: "The master builders have wo[rk] to do, I cannot give away [any of them]." I have (already) given [six] master builder[s] to the work assignment of the [centre of the city] and the palace herald, and my own w[ork] is a great burden on me.

r 33

.TIN-MEŠ i-ba-áš-ši [mi-mi-ni]

r 44

la a-dan-na .TIN-[MEŠ 06]

r 55

ina UGU pil-ki ša [MURUB₄ URU]

r 66

ša .600—É.GAL [a]-na*-ku*

r 77

a-ti-din ù dul₆-[lu] ia-u

r 88

ina UGU-ḫi-ia KALAG-[an] adan-niš

r 99

10 .TIN-MEŠ-ni [an]-nu-ti

(r 9) [The]se ten master builders at my disposal can[not] go out; they will [not] even break a brick [...].

r 1010

ša ina pa-ni-ia [la] ú-ṣu-u

r 1111

SIG₄-ma* [x x]+x [i]-ḫa-pi-u


Adapted from Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 5), 1990. 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/P313448/.

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