SAA 15 325. Fragment Concerning Corn Rations and Camels (CT 53 685)[via saao/saa15]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x x x] ⸢en⸣ [x]
o 2'2'	[x x x x x] ^men-nit—⸢aš-šur⸣	(2) [......] Ennet-Aššur
o 3'3'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-a ŠE.PAD-MEŠ	(3) [......] "corn rations
o 4'4'	[x x x x] ⸢ANŠE⸣.gam-mal-MEŠ	(4) [...... c]amels
o 5'5'	[x x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣	(5) [...... the ki]ng
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x x x]-ni
r 2'2'	[x x x x x x] ṣur ni
r 3'3'	[x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-ta-a a-na-ku	(r 3) [......] Why should I
r 4'4'	[x x x x x] lu at-tú-nu	(r 4) [......] You should
r 5'5'	[x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x]	(r 4) [......] You should
	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/P314096/.