SAA 19 167. Dying of Hunger (CTN 5 p. 224)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[LUGAL be-li] ⸢ANŠE.a-ṣap⸣-[pu]	(1) [The king, my lord], gave pa[ck animals] into my care but I am not able to take care of them; they will die o[f hu]nger.
o 2'2'	ina ŠU-a-⸢a⸣ i-ta-na [o]
o 3'3'	la mu-⸢qa⸣-a.a la a-ḫa-ṣi-⸢in⸣
o 4'4'	⸢ina bu⸣-bu-te i-mu-tú
o 5'5'	⸢ŠE.PAD⸣-MEŠ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li	(5) I have used up the gr[ain ratio]ns that the king, my lord, gave me, having giv[en] them [to] the local people, the specialists in the service of the treasurer and the quartermaster corps of the P[alace].
o 6'6'	⸢i⸣-di-na-an-ni
o 7'7'	[a-na] UN-MEŠ KUR
o 8'8'	[a-na] ⸢LÚ^v⸣.um^*-⸢ma⸣-ni ša ŠU.2 LÚ^v.IGI.UM
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢a-na⸣ LÚ^v.kit-ki-te-e ⸢ša^* É^?⸣.[GAL]
r 22	⸢ug-da-mir a-ti⸣-[din]
r 33	01 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ la^-din^-⸢ni⸣ [o]	(r 3) I can give out one homer of barley, but the king, my lord, knows what the governor of Arbela can [affo]rd.
r 44	LÚ^v.NAM ša URU.arba-ìl am—⸢mar⸣ [ma]-⸢ṣu⸣-u-ni
r 55	LUGAL be-li ú-da
r 66	⸢KUR⸣.ḫi-in-dar-a-a	(r 6) The Hindareans (and) [the H]atalleans [...]
r 77	[KUR].⸢ḫa⸣-ṭal-la-a.a	(r 6) The Hindareans (and) [the H]atalleans [...]
r 88	[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ^mki^-⸢i^⸣+[x x]	(r 8) Ki[...]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/P393664/.