SAA 19 015. Farmers of the Town of Aššur-nirka-uṣur (CTN 5 p. 196)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ía	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-šimanni.
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—ḪAL-a-ni	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-šimanni.
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o 33	šu-uḫ ⸢LÚ^v⸣.ENGAR-MEŠ	(3) As to the farmers of the town of Aššur-nirka-uṣur who appealed to the king, saying: "Our sown field has been flooded" - now their harvest has come out exceedingly well. The king knows that 10 ho[mers] of seed is cu[ltivated] annually.
o 44	ša URU.aš-šur—ni-ir-ka—PAB
o 55	ša LUGAL i-ḫu-ru-ni
o 66	ma-a ŠE.NUMUN-ME-ni ra-ḫi-iṣ
o 77	ú-ma-a BURU₁₄-šú-nu
o 88	SIG₅ : a—dan-niš
o 99	⸢LUGAL⸣ : ú-u-da
o 1010	ina MU.AN.NA 10 ⸢ANŠE⸣
o 1111	ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ ⸢ar^?⸣-[šu]
o 1212	⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x]	(12) [......]
Bottom		(12) [......]
b.e. 13b.e. 13	⸢É 40^?⸣ [ANŠE ŠE.NUMUN-MEŠ^?]	(13) an estate of 40 [homers of sown land]
b.e. 1414	⸢i⸣ [x x x x]	(14) [......]
Reverse		(14) [......]
r 1r 1	10 ANŠE ŠE.[NUMUN-MEŠ]	(r 1) has cultiv[ated] 10 homers of s[eed].
r 22	⸢i⸣-ta-⸢ra⸣-[áš]	(r 1) has cultiv[ated] 10 homers of s[eed].
r 33	[A].⸢ŠÀ⸣ : ma-⸢ʾu⸣-[ut-te]	(r 3) [They have] utili[zed the la]nd of [th]is sust[enance field]. The k[ing] should have them watched more strictly. They say: "It is our own sown field."
r 44	[an]-⸢ni⸣-te^* :.^* e-⸢tak⸣-[lu]
r 55	⸢LUGAL⸣ EN.NUN-šú-nu
r 66	⸢lu^*⸣-da-ʾi-ni
r 77	šu-nu ma-a ŠE.NUMUN-⸢MEŠ⸣
r 88	ša ra-ma-ni-ni šu-u
r 99	ú-ma-a : e-ṣi-di	(r 9) I will now place harvesters in the sustenance field. If (the harvest) falls short, I shall indemnify it fully.
r 1010	ina UGU ma-ʾu-te
r 1111	a-ka-ra-ar
r 1212	BE-ma : ma-ṭi
r 1313	ana-ku ú-šal-lam
Right
r.e. 14r.e. 14	⸢É⸣ 01 me ŠE.NUMUN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [o]	(r.e. 14) Bet-Eriy[a], an estate of 150 homers of land, has seized an estate of 100 homers of sown field.
r.e. 1515	URU.É—e-ri-⸢ia⸣
r.e. 1616	É 01 me 50 A.⸢ŠÀ⸣
r.e. 1717	i-⸢ṣa⸣-bat [o]

Adapted from Mikko Luukko, The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (State Archives of Assyria, 19), 2012. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2012, 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/P393609/.