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SAA 01 056

CDLI P313447
Collection no.: BM —
Accession no.: K 01166 + K 01189 + K 07482
Primary publication(s): ABL 0103+

Details

Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
Genre: Administrative Letter
Object type: tablet
Material: clay
Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

Period: Neo-Assyrian
Reign: Sargon II (721–705 BC)
Dated: no
Proposed Date: (717-706)

Sender Information

Sender: Ṭab-šar-Aššur
Location: Royal Court
Recipient: the king
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SAA 01 056. Transporting Stone Thresholds on Boats Made in Assyria (ABL 0103+)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a]-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	⸢ARAD⸣-ka ^mDÙG—IM—aš-šur
o 33	⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí iš-pur-an-ni	(4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The new boat which is coming from the Inner City — is there any (other) boat you are bringing in addition to it?" —
o 55	⸢ma⸣-a GIŠ.MÁ GIBIL-tú
o 66	⸢ša⸣ TA^v URU.ŠÀ—URU tal-lak-a-ni
o 77	i-ba-áš-ši-i GIŠ.MÁ ša i-si-šá
o 88	tu-qar-ra-bu-ni 06 ši-na GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ
o 99	[aš]-šur^*-a.a-te ša ina ÍD kar-ra-ni	(9) Six Assyrian boats have been launched on the river. I showed them to the boatmen, but they said: "We won't go near them."
o 1010	uk-ta-li-im a-na LÚ^v.MÁ.DU.DU-MEŠ
o 1111	iq-ṭí-bi-u ma-a la-áš-šú
o 1212	la ni-qar-ri-bi ú-ma-a	(12) Now, I am going to bring two of these boats and, going back and forth, [use them to transport] the stone steps and thresholds [of] the watchtowers, until I can make [the remaining] boats available.
o 1313	GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ an-na-te
o 1414	02 TA^v ŠÀ-bi-ši-na
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	⸢ú⸣-qar-rab ú-ta-⸢ra⸣
b.e. 1616	NA₄.mì-il-[a-ni]
Reverse
r 1r 1	NA₄.I.DIB-MEŠ [ša a-na]
r 22	na-me-ri ⸢ú^?⸣-[qar-ra-ba]
r 33	a-di GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ [re-ḫa-te]
r 44	ú-šak-šá-du-ni [x x]
r 55	ḫi-ṭu ša mu-a-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x]	(r 5) [I once committed] a deadly sin, but the king, my lord, let me live. And th[is one] — now, I suggested it to the king, the king my lord has [...]ed his soul.
r 66	LUGAL be-lí ⸢ub-ta⸣-li-ṭa-ni
r 77	⸢ù an^*⸣-[ni-tú] ú-ma-a
r 88	a-na LUGAL [EN]-⸢ia^*⸣ aq-⸢ṭí-bi⸣
r 99	LUGAL be-lí ZI-šú ⸢ú-x⸣-ki
r 1010	a-di GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ an-na-te	(r 10) Until I have these boats ready, I will bear the responsibility for the stone colossi in Adia. [I will ...] them [...] this [....] and [bring] them [over to] this bank (of the river).
r 1111	a-ga-mar-u-ni pu-tu-ḫu
r 1212	[NA₄].⸢^d⸣ALAD.^dLAMA-MEŠ an-nu-te
r 1313	[ša ina] URU.a-di-a na-ṣa-ku
r 1414	[a-na bat]-⸢te⸣ an-ni-te
r 1515	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú-nu ina bat-te an-ni-te
r 1616	[x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú-nu

Adapted from Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West (State Archives of Assyria, 1), 1987. 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/P313447/.

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