Position in chronology
SAA 01 105. Barley and Straw Taken from Desert Depots (ABL 0871)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 1(Beginning destroyed) (1) in the town [...] in the middle of [... ...] has taken 40 homers of b[arley] and 200 bales of straw, (as supplies) for two days, referring the matter to the king, (9) (while) in the village of Diqarate in the desert Aššur-belu-taqqin the prefect has taken 16 homers of barley and a pile of straw and seized farmers of the Palace. (r 8) They have borrowed [... and gi]ven [...... (Break) (e. 1) they open [......] without the go[vernor]'s permission; the king [my lord should know this].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢m*d*⸣[x x x x] / ina qa-ab-[si URU.x x] / 40 ANŠE ⸢ŠE*⸣.[PAD-MEŠ] / 02 me ma-⸢qa⸣-ru-tú / ša ŠE.IN.NU / ša 02 UD-mu-MEŠ / it-ti-ši / ⸢a*⸣-bat LUGAL i-zak-ra / [maš]-⸢šur*⸣—U—LAL LÚv.GAR-nu / [ina] ⸢URU⸣.ŠE—KAM-MEŠ / [ina] ⸢KUR⸣.mu-da-bir / 16 ANŠE ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / ŠE.kur-diš-šu / ša ŠE.IN.NU / it-ti-ši / LÚv.ENGAR-MEŠ É.GAL / ú-ṣa-bi-it / ⸢a*⸣-na* pu-u-ḫi / [x x na]-ṣu-u-ni / [x x it]-⸢ta*⸣-nu / [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] / ša la-a LÚv.⸢EN⸣.[NAM x x x x] / ⸢i*⸣-pat-ti-u ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN lu ú-di]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence under Sargon II, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 1, 1987). Letter from a governor or high official to the king of Assyria. ORACC text P334598.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P334598). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1987. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I: Letters from Assyria and the West. SAA 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/P334598/.
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