SAA 19 221. Digging out Boats (CTN 5 p. 265)[via saao/saa19]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | mu-uk ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | (1) I said: "[...] they will set out. Dig your boats out!" But they don't obe[y]. |
| o 2'2' | ú-nam-mu-⸢šú x⸣+[x x] | |
| o 3'3' | ||
| o 4'4' | ||
| o 5'5' | (5) Let the king, my lord, send him an order to dig out his boats. | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| 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/P393699/.