SAA 01 210. Measuring the Patti-Illil Canal (ABL 0621+)[via saao/saa01]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL [be--ni]

(1) To the king, [our lord]: Your servants [Nabû-pašir] and Nabû-dur-ma[kie]. Good health to [the king, our lord]! May Sin and N[ikkal] bless the king, our lord!

o 22

ARAD-MEŠ-ka m[x x x x]

o 33

mdPABÀDma-[ki-e]

o 44

lu DI-mu a-na [LUGAL be--ni]

(4) As to the ditch about which the king wrote to us, we made a start on the ditch on the 10th, and on the 8th, as soon as we had got the men organized, we started measuring the Patti-Illil canal. As soon as we have found out its measurements and where it is easy and where difficult (to navigate), we shall write again to the king, my lord.

o 55

d30 ù dNIN*.[GAL]

o 66

a-na LUGAL be--ni

o 77

lik-ru-bu

o 88

ina UGU ÍD.ḫi-ri-te

o 99

ša LUGAL -pur-an-na-ši-ni

o 1010

UD 10-KÁM Á.2-ni

o 1111

ina UGU ÍD.ḫi-ri-te

o 1212

nu-tu-me-di

o 1313

a-di .ERIM-MEŠ nu-šá-áš-kín-u-ni

o 1414

UD 08-KÁM ina UGU ma-da-a-di*

o 1515

ša ÍD.pat-tidBI*

Bottom
b.e. 16b.e. 16

ni-iq-ṭí-ri-ib

b.e. 1717

a-di mi-da-as-su

Reverse
r 1r 1

-em-mar-u-ni

r 22

ina -et DÙG.GA-u-ni

r 33

ina -et GIG-u-ni

r 44

a-na LUGAL be--ia

r 55

ni-šap-pa-ar

r 66

an-nu-rig mdPAENMU-MEŠ

(r 6) Right now Nabû-bel-šumate of Birat is going to appeal to the king about Galṣabri, a town of his; [...] (grain) depots [......] in his hands. The king [our] lord [......] men [......] with us [......

r 77

URU.ḪAL.ṢU-a.a ina UGU

r 88

URU.GAL?-ṣa-ab-ri URU-šú

r 99

il-la-ka a-na LUGAL be--ia

r 1010

i-maḫ-ḫar [x] ANŠE kar-ma-a-ni

r 1111

ina Á-šú* pa*-[x x x]+x

r 1212

LUGAL be--[ni x x x]

r 1313

.ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x]

r 1414

i-se-e-ni [x x x x]

(Rest destroyed)


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/P393866/.