SAA 19 204. Report on Stored Grain (CTN 5 p. 320)[via saao/saa19]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[a]-⸢na LUGAL be-lí⸣-[ia]	(1) [T]o the king, [my] lor[d]: your [se]rvant Šarru-ila'i. Good health to the ki[ng], my lord!
o 22	⸢ARAD-ka⸣ ^m⸢LUGAL—DINGIR-a.a⸣
o 33	⸢lu DI-mu⸣ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣
o 44	be-lí-⸢ia⸣
o 55	ina UGU ŠE.tab-⸢ku-MEŠ⸣	(5) As to stored grain about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Inspect the crops under [......].
o 66	⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-lí
o 77	iš-⸢pur⸣-an-ni
o 88	⸢ma-a ŠE.BURU₁₄⸣-MEŠ
o 99	⸢ša qa-at x x x x⸣
o 1010	a-mur ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
o 1111	ŠE.⸢BURU₁₄⸣-[MEŠ^? x x x]	(11) The crop[s ...] whi[ch ......]
o 1212	⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x]
Bottom
b.e.b.e.	broken away	(Break)
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]
r 22	⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x]	(r 2) I am se[nding ......] to [the king, my lord].
r 33	⸢a-na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia]
r 44	⸢ú-se⸣-[bi-la]
r 55	⸢ŠE.BURU₁₄⸣-[MEŠ^? x x x]	(r 5) The crop[s ......]
r 66	⸢x x x⸣ [x x x]
r 77	⸢x x x x⸣ [x x]-⸢nu^?⸣
r 88	[šu]-⸢ú⸣ ina ⸢ta⸣-ḫu-me	(r 8) [h]e/[i]t is on the border.
	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/P393708/.