SAA 15 341. Inspecting the Fort and Clearing Canals (CT 53 228)[via saao/saa15]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]

o 2'2'

[x x x x x LUGAL] be-lí liš-⸢al⸣

(2) [...] Let [the king], my lord, as[k]

o 3'3'

[x x x ina bat]-te an-ni-te [o]

(3) [... on] this [si]de

o 4'4'

[x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL be⸣-lí liš-⸢ṭur?⸣

(4) [...] Let the kin[g], my [l]ord, wri[te]

o 5'5'

[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣

(5) [......]

Bottom
b.e. 6'b.e. 6'

[x x x x x x URU].bir-tú

(6) [...... the] fort

b.e. 7'7'

[x x x x]-⸢la⸣-a-ni

(7) [......]...

b.e. 8'8'

[x x x x] ⸢bat⸣-ti-bat-ti ša URU

(8) [......] around the city

b.e. 9'9'

[x x x x] ú-pa-ti

(9) [......] opened

Reverse
r 1r 1

[x x x x]-⸢bi⸣ šá ep-ri mal-ʾu-ni

(r 1) [...] which are/were full of dust

r 22

[x x x x] me A-MEŠ i-sa-ak-⸢ku⸣-u-ni

(r 2) [...] the waters were blocked

r 33

[x x x x] ⸢URU⸣.bir-tu am-mar

(r 3) [...] I shall inspect the fort

r 44

[x x x x]-šú-nu ḫa-za-ni iṣ-ṣa-⸢bat⸣

(r 4) [...] their [...] seize[d] my mayor

r 55

[x x x LÚv].⸢šá⸣—BAD-ḪAL-⸢lum⸣

(r 5) [... c]avalryman

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Adapted from Andreas Fuchs and Simo Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces (State Archives of Assyria, 15), 2001. 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/P313643/.