SAA 05 056. Master Builders and Apprentices (CT 53 033)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | ||
o 44 | (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 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | (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 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | ||
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | (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 | ||
o 1515 | ||
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | (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 | ||
r 44 | la a-dan-na LÚ.TIN-[MEŠ 06] | |
r 55 | ||
r 66 | ||
r 77 | ||
r 88 | ||
r 99 | (r 9) [The]se ten master builders at my disposal can[not] go out; they will [not] even break a brick [...]. | |
r 1010 | ||
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/.