SAA 01 143. Straw for the Glazing of Bricks (ABL 1180)[via saao/saa01]
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o 1'1' | [x x x x x x] GAL | (1) [On the ... th, after ......] we had finished the (city) wall, [we] got [busy], gathered men for the straw that the king had given to us in Halahhu, and went to carry it over. |
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o 8'8' | (8) The men working in the ditch, [of] a single prefect and 125 in number, have [neither] delivered straw of their own nor are they carrying that of Halahhu. By means of what will they glaze bricks for their work-quota tomorrow? What does the king my lord say? | |
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r 1r 1 | (r 1) As to the replacement for the dead concerning which the king told the magnates: "Provide the replacement!" — nobody has given us anything. The deficit of our dead [and] invalid soldiers who did not go to the campaign with us is [1],200; the magnates won't give it to us, nor have they given their straw, [nor] have they worked with us. | |
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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/P334776/.