SAA 01 119. Boats Carrying Bull Colossi Sink (ABL 0420)[via saao/saa01]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—ba-ni
o 33	lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia
o 44	^maš-šur—MU—ki-in	(4) Aššur-šumi-ke'in called me to help and loaded the bull colossi on the boats, but the boats could not carry the load (and sank).
o 55	ik-ta-at-ra-an-ni
o 66	NA₄.^dALAD.^dLAMA
o 77	ina ŠÀ-bi GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ
o 88	ú-sa-ar-ki-pi
o 99	GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ la e-mu-qa-ši-na
o 1010	la in-tu-ḫa
o 1111	a-ka-ni da-ʾa-tú	(11) Now, although it cost me a great trouble, I have now hauled them up again.
o 1212	a-bu-tu o^*
o 1313	e-ta-ap-šá-ni-ma
Reverse
r 1r 1	ú-ma-a
r 22	ú-sa-ḫi^*-ir
r 33	ú-se-li-a
	rest uninscribed

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/P334288/.