SAA 05 290. Ferrying Some Thresholds Without Boats (CT 53 030)[via saao/saa05]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ man ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
o 2'2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ši-na | |
o 3'3' | ||
o 4'4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ḫa-ni i-sa-ḫu-ra | |
o 5'5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ dan-nu ina URU.ši-i-me | |
o 6'6' | [x x x x]-ḫi ša GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ | |
o 7'7' | [x x x] ⸢ta*⸣-ḫa-ni-šú-ni mar ša i-ba-⸢šu-ni⸣ | |
o 8'8' | [x x x x] GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ an-na-te pa-a-ṣa | (8) [are ...]. These boats are damaged. |
o 9'9' | [x x x]-da-du i-sa-ḫu-⸢ra⸣ | (9) [......]dadu will return, and |
o 10'10' | [x x x x]-ḫa-ni-šú-nu i—⸢su⸣-[ri] | |
o 11'11' | (11) Perh[aps the king, my lord, wi]ll say: | |
o 12'12' | [x GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ an]-⸢na⸣-te [o] | |
rest broken away | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | beginning broken away | |
r 1'1' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢i⸣ [x] | |
r 2'2' | [x x x x x x x x] NA₄.I.[DIB-MEŠ] | |
r 3'3' | [x x x x x x x na]-me-⸢ri⸣ | |
r 4'4' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
r 5'5' | (r 5) I shall bring across [the thresholds] which [have been deposited on] the river bank, [and ... do] the work on the boats. [Wh]at does the king, my lord, [say]? | |
r 6'6' | ||
r 7'7' | [x x x x] dul₆-lu ša GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ | |
r 8'8' | ||
r 9'9' | ||
rest uninscribed |
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/P313445/.