SAA 19 166. Excellent Harvest but Fodder Stolen (CTN 5 p. 197)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]
o 2'2'	[ina] ⸢MI⸣ ša UD ⸢27-KAM⸣	(2) It rained [extre]mely heavily [on the nig]ht of the 27th until the daybreak, the whole day on the 27th and the whole night on the night of the 28th. [The r]ain poured down very [mu]ch water, the amount [o]f water is great indeed. The harvest will be excellent.
o 3'3'	a-di na-me-ra-ni
o 4'4'	ina UD 27-KAM UD-mu gab-bi-šú
o 5'5'	ina MI ša UD 28-KAM
o 6'6'	MI gab-bi-šú
o 7'7'	[A].⸢AN⸣-MEŠ ma-aʾ-da
o 8'8'	[a]—⸢dan⸣-niš i-zu-nu-nu
o 9'9'	[zi]-⸢i⸣-nu A-MEŠ
o 10'10'	[ma]-⸢aʾ⸣-da a—dan-niš
o 11'11'	⸢ik⸣-ta-ra-ra ni-bu
o 12'12'	⸢ša⸣ A-MEŠ ma-aʾ-da
o 13'13'	[a]—dan-niš ⸢BURU₁₄⸣
Bottom
b.e. 14'b.e. 14'	⸢SIG₅⸣-iq a—dan-niš
Reverse
r 1r 1	[^m]⸢x⸣-qu i-tal-⸢ka⸣	(r 1) [...]qu has come and taken fo[dder from] the fodder and [...] stores. He took once when I was in the king my lord's presence in Arbela, and now he has done it again and taken it for the second time!
r 22	[ina] É—Ú-MEŠ É—ḫi-⸢x⸣ ŠE.⸢ki^?⸣-[su-tú]
r 33	⸢i⸣-si-qi ki-i
r 44	ina URU.arba-ìl ina IGI LUGAL EN-a
r 55	a-na-ku-ni ma-la i-si-qi
r 66	ú-ma-a ú-sa-ni-ʾa
r 77	šá-nu-te-šú i-⸢si-qi⸣
r 88	^maš-šur—PAB-ir ^mam—[ḫa]-ti-i	(r 8) (Concerning) Aššur-naṣir, Ammi-[ha]tî (and) Bel-apkal-ilani, total three recruitment officers, about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me that they [sho]uld enter the towns of Bel-aplu-iddina. They have (now) entered them.
r 99	^mEN—NUN.ME—DINGIR-MEŠ PAB 03 LÚ^v.mu-šar-ki-sa-⸢ni⸣
r 1010	ša LUGAL EN iš-pu-ra-ni
r 1111	⸢ma⸣-a ina URU-MEŠ-ni ša ^mEN—A—AŠ
r 1212	⸢le⸣-ru-bu e-tar-bu
r 1313	[x x] me^? u ⸢i^?⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣—PAB-MEŠ	(r 13) [...]... [...]-ahhe
	rest broken away	(Break)
Edge
e. 1e. 1	⸢ú-ma⸣-a ina UGU LUGAL EN-⸢a⸣ [a-sap-ra^?]	(e. 1) [I have] now [written] to the king, my lord.
e. 22	[x x x x] LUGAL [x x x x]	(e. 2) [Let] the king [......].

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/P393673/.