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SAA 19 108

  • CDLI P393650
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Excavation no.: ND 02623
  • Primary publication(s): CTN 5 p. 34

Details

  • Provenience: Nimrud (Kalhu) (Pleiades ID: 894019)
  • Archive: 006 - Northwest Palace, Room ZT 4
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Assyrian)
  • Genre: Administrative Letter
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Assyrian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC)
  • Dated: no
  • Proposed Date: (731-729)

Sender Information

  • Sender: Ašipa
  • Location: Babylonia
  • Recipient: the king
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SAA 19 108. Raising Barley from Babylonian Cities (CTN 5 p. 34)[via saao/saa19]

Obverse
o 1o 1

a-na LUGAL be--ía

(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ. Good health to (the king,) my lord!

o 22

ARAD-ka ma-ši-pa-a

o 33

lu-ú DI-mu a-na <LUGAL> be--ía

o 44

ina UGU ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša LUGAL

(4) Concerning the barley which the king, my lord, sent me for, when I set out from the king, my lord, I entered [Cut]ha and Sippar and I stayed two days in Babylon but the barley of Ṣil-Bel was not available. I could not go near it until Mušezib-Ilu came from Kar-Aššur.

o 55

be- -pur-an-ni-ni

o 66

TAv pa-an LUGAL be--ía

o 77

ša ú-nam-mi-ša-an-ni

o 88

a-na URU.[ku]-ti-u

o 99

a-na URU.si-par

o 1010

e-ta-ár-ba

o 1111

02-ta UD-MEŠ ina TIN.TIR.KI

o 1212

ka-mu-sa-ak [o]

Reverse
r 1r 1

ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša mGIŠ.MIdEN

r 22

la qu-ur-ba-ti

r 33

la aq-ri-ib

r 44

a-du mmu-še-zibDINGIR

r 55

TAv URU.kar-šur

r 66

il-li-kan-ni

r 77

GIŠ.-MEŠ a-sa-da-da

(r 7) I towed the boats and went a day’s march below Cutha.

r 88

mar-di-ti ša-pa-al

r 99

.DU₈.A.KI at-ta-lak

r 1010

UD 23-KÁM ú-nam-ma?-šá?

(r 10) On the 23rd I will set out and put in place the barley of Cutha.

r 1111

ŠE.PAD-MEŠ ša .DU₈.A.KI

r 1212

a-kar-ra-ár


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/P393650/.