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  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Sargon2.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Administrative Letter

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SAA 15, 026

SAA 15 026. Harvesting in Dur-Bel-ila’i and Lubda (ABL 1191)[via saao/saa15]

Obverse
o 1o 1

[a-na LUGAL be]-⸢lí⸣-ía

(1) [To the king], my [lor]d: [your servant Nabû]-belu-ka''in. [Good health to the kin]g, my lord!

o 22

[ARAD-ka mdPA]—EN—GIN

o 33

[lu-u DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí-ía

o 44

[is—su-ri LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí i-qab-bi

(4) [Perhaps the king], my [lord], says: "[What are y]ou doing?" —

o 55

[ma-a mì-nu] ⸢te*⸣-ep-pa-áš

o 66

[x x x x] at-tal-ka

(6) [...] I came

o 77

[x x x x]-pa-ni ki-i a-ḫa-a-a-iš

(7) [...] together

o 88

[x x am]—mar* ib-šal-u-ni

(8) [... wh]atever was boiled

o 99

[x x x] e-ṣi-di

(9) [...] has been harvested.

o 1010

[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ta ap-ti-rik

(10) I have blocked [...]

o 1111

[ina URU].BÀD—EN—DINGIR-a.a a-na-ku

(11) I am [in] Dur-Bel-ila'i.

o 1212

[x x x]+⸢x⸣ TAv URU.zab-ban

(12) [...] from Zabban

o 1313

[x x] ⸢ša*⸣ in-gal-lu AN.BAR

(13) [...] iron sickle

o 1414

[x x x]-ku* TAv URU.lu-ub-da

(14) [When] I [com]e from Lubda,

o 1515

[x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni ŠE.BURU₁₄-šú-nu

(15) [...] their harvest

o 1616

[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ba-[áš-ši]

(16) [...] the[re is]

o 1717

[x x x x x] ⸢an⸣ [x x x]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)

Reverse
rr uninscribed


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/P334781/.