SAA 19 083. The Works of Dur-Ammi-iababa; Transporting Barley (CTN 5 p. 47)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-šallimanni. Good health to the king, my lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^maš-šur—DI-a-ni
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia
o 44	ina ⸢UGU URU⸣.BÀD—^mam—ia-a-ba-⸢ba⸣	(4) Concerning the town of Dur-Ammi-iababa about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, they have raised a palace a[top the citadel], (and) the mo[at of the wal]l is finished.
o 55	ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-⸢lí iš-pur-an-ni⸣ É.GAL
o 66	ina ⸢x x⸣ [x x] ⸢ú-še-li⸣-ú
o 77	ḫi-⸢ri⸣-[ṣu ša] ⸢BÀD⸣ ga-am-mur
o 88	an [x x x x x]+⸢x gab^?⸣-bi ⸢x⸣	(8) ...[...] all [......]
o 99	a-na [URU.BÀD]—^mam—ia-a-⸢ba-ba⸣	(9) to [Dur]-Ammi-iababa
o 1010	⸢x x x⸣ [x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣	(10) [...... we sh]all go ...[...]
o 1111	[ni^?]-⸢il-lak⸣ [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša ⸢^mEN—A⸣—AŠ	(11) [Concern]ing the barley of Bel-aplu-iddina [about which the k]ing, my lord, [wro]te to me, Mušallim-Marduk, [who] went [wi]th the boats, [has retu]rned.
o 1212	[ša] ⸢LUGAL be-lí⸣ [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni ^mmu-šal-lim—^dŠÚ
o 1313	[ša] ⸢TA GIŠ.MÁ⸣-MEŠ il-li-ku-ni
o 1414	[i-su-uḫ]-ra UD 09-KÁM GIŠ.MÁ-MEŠ	(14) On the 9th, the boats arrived [in the town of ...]editi.
o 1515	[ina URU.x]+⸢x⸣-e-di-ti iq-ṭar-ba-a-ni
o 1616	[a-na ^mmu-šal]-lim—^dŠÚ áš-sa-al	(16) I asked [Mušal]lim-Marduk: "[How m]any boats are there? [......] He said: "The barley [...]
o 1717	[mu-uk ki] ⸢ma-ṣi⸣ ši-na GIŠ.MÁ-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x]
o 1818	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-a ⸢ŠE.PAD^? x⸣ [x]
o 1919	[x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x x]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)
Reverse
rr	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/P393636/.