SAA 19 200. Distributing Men and Barley (CTN 5 p. 268)[via saao/saa19]
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| beginning broken away | ||
| 1'1' | (1) I [went to the town] Rapiša. | |
| 2'2' | (2) [I pl]aced [watchtow]ers th[ere] and p[ut them on alert], I transported [barley] and piled it up [th]er[e], and I brought troops into it. | |
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| 7'7' | (7) From there I am going to [...]li and Menaga, (two) fo[rt]s of Aššur-be[lu-taqq]in. Where they have not been put on alert, I will alert them, and I will transport barley, pile it up there, and bring troops into them. | |
| 8'8' | ||
| 9'9' | ⸢ša⸣ maš-šur—⸢EN—LAL*⸣ a-lak [o?] | |
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| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
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| r 55 | (r 5) [I have e]qui[p]ped the fort[s which] were placed under Bel-aplu-iddina, saying: "[...li] (and) Menag[a ...]" | |
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | [ú]-sa-⸢aṣ-bit⸣ nu-ku ⸢URU?⸣.[x x] | |
| r 88 | ⸢URU⸣.me-⸢na*-ga⸣ [x]+⸢x x te?⸣ [x] | |
| r 99 | [URU].⸢ḪAL.ṢU-MEŠ⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | (r 9) [the fo]rts [......] |
| r 1010 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r 1111 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| rest broken away |
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/P393634/.