SAA 19 198. Building a Fort (CTN 5 p. 237)[via saao/saa19]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x] ŠÀ? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x]

o 2'2'

⸢TAv⸣ UGU URU.01-te ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]

(2) [Con]cerning the city Issete [and ......], about which the king wrote to me: "[......]

o 3'3'

⸢ša⸣ LUGAL iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x]

o 4'4'

pi-⸢it⸣-ti 05-ma LÚ.⸢ERIM-MEŠ x⸣ bi? ⸢x⸣+[x x x]

(4) according to the same 5 men [......]

o 5'5'

A-MEŠ a-na NAG-šú-nu ⸢x x⸣ [x]-⸢ṣu-ú⸣-[ni?]

(5) water for them to drink ...[... ...]....

o 6'6'

ša ni-ra-ṣip-u-ni ta-ri-⸢ṣi⸣ [x]+⸢x-a ú? x⸣-ti-ma

(6) What we are building is all right [......]

o 7'7'

É.GAL ⸢ki?⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ ma URU.bir-⸢te? URU.x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-a-te

(7) a palace [......]. We are also building a fort [...] and will pl[ace] guardsmen there. [L]et pack animals for the guards come up here [...].

o 8'8'

⸢ni⸣-ra-ṣip-pi LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ ša EN.NUN ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi

o 9'9'

⸢niš⸣-[kun ù?] ANŠE.a-ṣap-pi ⸢ša LÚ.EN.NUN-MEŠ⸣

o 10'10'

[x x x x] ⸢le⸣-li-ú-⸢ni ša LUGAL⸣

(10) As to what the king, [my lord, wrote to me]: "The anima[ls ......]

o 11'11'

[be-lí iš-pur-an-ni] ⸢ma-a ú-ma-am⸣ [x x x x]

o 12'12'

[x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)

Reverse
rr minimal traces of 8 lines; no copy

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/P393665/.