SAA 19 036. Raising Barley (CTN 5 p. 273)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a-na LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣	(1) [To the king], my [lord: your servant In]urta-belu-uṣur. [Good health] to the king, my lord!
o 22	[ARAD-ka ^m^d]⸢MAŠ⸣—EN—PAB
o 33	[lu DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL EN-ia
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o 44	[ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL be-lí	(4) [Concerni]ng what the king, my lord, [wrote] to me: "20,000 [homers of barley] have been imposed on you - [wh]en will you raise them?"
o 55	[iš-pur]-a-ni ma-a 20 lim
o 66	[ANŠE ŠE.PAD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ina UGU-ḫi-ka
o 77	[ma-a] ⸢im^*⸣-ma-te ta-ma-ta-ḫa
o 88	[x-lim]-⸢9^*⸣-me-66 ANŠE	(8) I have raised [x thousand] 966 homers [of barley]
o 99	[ŠE.PAD-MEŠ] am-⸢ta-at⸣-ḫa
o 1010	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ di ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣
o 1111	[x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x]
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away
r 1'1'	[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x]
r 2'2'	[x x x x] pa-ni^*-⸢u^?-te⸣	(r 2) [I shall rai]se the first [...s].
r 3'3'	[a-ma]-⸢ta⸣-ḫa	(r 2) [I shall rai]se the first [...s].
	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/P393616/.