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SAA 01 160. Collecting Barley for Palace Consumption (ABL 0843)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king, my lord]: yo[ur servant] Tariba-Issar. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! (4) [I] stood [alongside] the king's road, [in fron]t of the gardens, but the king did not pay attention to me, speaking as he was with Raṣappai. I went to the city of Adian and spoke with the rab mūgi officer, but nobody came to greet me so I became scared. (r 4) Now, I have collected 500 homers (= 100,000 litres) of barley in the city of Kilizi, and would like to deliver it. If the king my lord commands: "Collect barley for three palaces," I will collect it in Adian and Arbela as well. (e. 1) The barley has not been piled up; they [......], I [......] Ṣilli-Bel [......]
Source: 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/P334588/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía] / [ARAD*]-⸢ka*⸣ mta-⸢ri-ba⸣—15 / [lu DI]-mu a-na MAN EN-ia / [ina UŠ] KASKAL ša LUGAL / [pa]-⸢an*⸣ GIŠ.SAR-MEŠ / [a]-ti-te-zi LUGAL / uz-nu la iš-ku-na / TAv mra-ṣa-pa-a.a / i-da-bu-ub / a-na URU.EN-an / a-ta-al-ka / pa-an LÚv.GAL—mu-gi / aq-ṭí-bi / me-me-ni / la ú-ṣi-a / DI-mu la i-qí*-bi*-a* / a-pa-ta-làḫ / an-nu-rig / 05 me ŠE.PAD-MEŠ / ina URU.kàl-zi / up-ta-ḫi-ir…
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 P334588.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334588). 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/P334588/.
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