SAA 19 051. Unable to Take Care of Pack Animals (CTN 5 p. 312)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [T]o the k[i]ng, my lord: your [serva]nt Aššur-šitt[u-u]ṣur. | |
| o 22 | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| o 33 | (3) Surely [the k]ing, my lord, (is planning) to send me pack animals but I am not able to take care of the pack animals. [Al]l the available food and corn is (for) the [pe]ople the king gave me; [h]e who lies to the king will die. | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | ||
| o 1313 | (13) I have w[r]itten down the entire yie[l]d of the threshing-floor and I have also wr[it]ten the envelope and I have (now) sent the scribe Aplaya (to the king) [in ch]arge of Bel-bunaya. | |
| o 1414 | ||
| Bottom | ||
| b.e. 15b.e. 15 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) [(Perhaps) the king], my [l]ord, will say: "[Wh]y have you neglected to wri[t]e me?" (That is why) [I am (now) wri]ting [i]n detail. | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) The king, my lord, [ma]y do [as] he deems best but I am not able to take care of the pack animals. | |
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | ||
| r 1111 | ||
| r 1212 | ||
| rest 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/P393680/.