SAA 19 172. Distributing Barley (CTN 5 p. 308)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-na LUGAL EN-ia	(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-duri. Good health to the king, m[y] lord!
o 22	ARAD-ka ^mEN—BÀD
o 33	lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣
o 44	06 lim 06 me 66 ANŠE 46 qa [ŠE.PAD-MEŠ]	(4) I have g[iven] 6,666 homers 46 litres of [barley] to Inurta-šarru-uṣur. [I have given] 3,333 homers and 3 sea[hs of barley to] Aššur-remanni.
o 55	a-na ^m^dMAŠ—MAN—PAB a-⸢ti⸣-[din]
o 66	⸢03⸣ lim 03 me 33 ANŠE 03 ⸢BÁN⸣ [ŠE.PAD-MEŠ]
o 77	[a]-⸢na ^m⸣aš-šur—rém-a-ni [a-ti-din^?]
o 88	[x x] ⸢x⸣ ŠE.PAD-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x]	(8) [x home]rs of barley [......]
o 99	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x]	(8) [x home]rs of barley [......]
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
Reverse
rr	as far as preserved, 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/P393667/.