SAA 19 033. Horses, Oxen and Sheep from Tabal (CTN 5 p. 290)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [To the k]ing, my lord: yo[ur servant] Inurta-belu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| _____________________________ | ||
| o 44 | (4) As to Inurta-aplu-iddina about whom my lord wrote to me: "How many horses, oxen (and) sheep that he brought from Tabal has he entrusted to you? Why have you not written (about this)?" | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | (10) I have already written to my lord twice: 46 horses, 165 oxen, 4,635 sheep are in my charge (and) 33 horses, 135 oxen are in the charge of Aššur-naṣir. | |
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | 33 ANŠE.KUR.RA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [o?] ⸢01 me 35⸣ | |
| o 1515 | ||
| o 1616 | (16) I have given him orders, written a sealed document and given it to him, and he has left for my lord. | |
| o 1717 | ||
| o 1818 | ||
| o 1919 | (19) Aya-neri has fetched 16 logs that came from Bel-ibni, deposited them unto me, and I have received them. | |
| o 2020 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) Heretofore, Attar-šumki and Mati'-il used to pile up [logs] on the [river] bank, and I have piled them up there as well. N[ow NN] (comes) to m[e], saying: "Let him (= Aya-neri) cut them for me, (and) bring them across to this side (of the river)!" | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ⸢ú⸣-[ma-a] ⸢x x x⸣ ina ⸢UGU-ia?⸣ | |
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | (r 12) The king, my lord, surely knows that it is not (part of) our ilku-duty. | |
| r 1313 | ||
| r 1414 | (r 14) The land of my lord is very well (and) we are doing our work. The king, my lord, can be glad indeed. | |
| r 1515 | ||
| r 1616 | ||
| r 1717 | ||
| r 1818 | ||
| rest uninscribed |
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/P393615/.