SAA 05 298. Moving Bull Colossi Across the River (ABL 1362)[via saao/saa05]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning (probably one line only) broken away | |
| o 1'1' | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| o 2'2' | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| o 3'3' | ⸢x⸣+[x] a-na [x x x x x] | |
| o 4'4' | (4) As to the of[ficials] in Adi[a] and in Tas[tiate concerning whom] the king, my lord, wro[te me]: "All of them should go t[o Dur-Šarruken]!" — | |
| o 5'5' | ||
| o 6'6' | ||
| o 7'7' | ||
| o 8'8' | ||
| o 9'9' | (9) the bu[ll colossi] of the magnates are set up to[gether] and the king, my lord, [(earlier) said]: "They should quickly ... the colossi and as long as the water in the river is [low, bring them across] the river!" | |
| o 10'10' | ||
| o 11'11' | ||
| o 12'12' | ||
| o 13'13' | ||
| o 14'14' | (14) Who [...] would (then) stay (here) to look after the [bull colossi]? | |
| o 15'15' | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 16'b.e. 16' | LÚ.EN—⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| b.e. 17'17' | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) N[ow], the magnates are waiting for [me]. May the king, my lord, wait for me (until) Siv[an] (III), and I will (then) get the work done and deliver it to [the king]. | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | i-da-gul ina ITI.⸢SIG₄⸣ [o] | |
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | (r 7) If the king, my lord, (nevertheless) ord[ers]: "They must go!" then let ten (officials) from the Inner City and five from Calah stay to look after the bull coloss[i]; the r[est may go] to Dur-Š[arruken]. | |
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | 10 URU.ŠÀ—URU-a.a [o] | |
| r 1010 | 05 URU.kal-ḫa-a.a [o] | |
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| r 1313 | ||
| rest (1-2 lines) broken away |
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/P334865/.