SAA 19 051. Unable to Take Care of Pack Animals (CTN 5 p. 312)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a]-⸢na LUGAL⸣ EN-ía	(1) [T]o the k[i]ng, my lord: your [serva]nt Aššur-šitt[u-u]ṣur.
o 22	⸢ARAD⸣-ka ^maš-⸢šur⸣—šit-⸢ti^?—PAB⸣
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o 33	⸢pi⸣-iq-⸢ta-te⸣	(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	⸢LUGAL⸣ be-lí a-ṣa-pu
o 55	ú-še-ba-⸢la⸣
o 66	la ⸢mu⸣-qa-a.a
o 77	a-ṣa-⸢pu⸣ la a-ḫa-ṣi-ni
o 88	⸢UN⸣-MEŠ <ša> LUGAL i-⸢di^*⸣-na-ni
o 99	⸢mar⸣ a-ka-li-šú-nu
o 1010	⸢mar⸣ ŠE.NUMUN-šú-nu i-ba-ši
o 1111	⸢ša⸣ a-na LUGAL i-sa-lu-ni
o 1212	i-mu-ta
o 1313	te-⸢lit⸣ ad-ri ga-bi-šú-ma	(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	⸢a-sa⸣-ṭa-ra
Bottom
b.e. 15b.e. 15	⸢e^?-rim⸣-tú a-⸢sa-ṭa-ra⸣
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢^mA⸣-a.a LÚ^v.A.BA
r 22	[ina] ⸢ŠU⸣.2 ^mEN—DÙ-a-a
r 33	⸢ú⸣-se-bi-la
r 44	[LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-lí i-qa-bi	(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	[ma a]-⸢ta⸣-a ta-⸢ši⸣-ṭi
r 66	[a-ta]-⸢a⸣ la taš-⸢pu-ra⸣
r 77	[šid]-di ár-ki
r 88	[a-sap]-ra LUGAL be-lí	(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	[ki-i] ⸢ša⸣ e-pa-šú-ni
r 1010	⸢le⸣-pu-šu
r 1111	⸢a⸣-ṣa-pu la mu-qa-a.a
r 1212	la a-ḫa-ṣi-ni
	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/.