Position in chronology
SAA 15 318. Ploughing with Six Oxen (CT 53 209)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 15(Beginning destroyed) (2) I shall notify [the king, my lord]. (3) [Perhaps the king, my lord], will say: "[Why did] the ha[rvest in] this [...]?" (5) One farmer [...] i[n ...]. At the summoning [...] they wielded the plough [with x oxen (only)]. Thereby the harvest did not c[ome out well]. (9) In this country, O kin[g, my lord], they wie[ld] the plough with six oxen [...]. They cultivate the seed [...] and make a good [harvest ...]. (r 5) Now [......] (r 6) [wi]th him [......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 15 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / ú-šá-áš-[ma i—su-ri LUGAL be-lí] / i-qa-bi ma-[a x x x x x] / an-ni-e e-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / 01-en LÚv.ENGAR ⸢ina⸣ [x x x x] / ina da-ku-ti [x x x x] / GIŠ.APIN uk-te-lu [x x x] / ina ŠÀ-bi e-bu-ru la ⸢šal⸣-[lum] / ina KUR an-ni-ti ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-lí] / ina 06 GUD-MEŠ ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / GIŠ.APIN ú-ka-[lu x x x] / ŠE.NUMUN e-ru-šu [x x x x] / ú-šal-lu-mu [x x x x x] / ⸢ú⸣-ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [i]-⸢si⸣-šú [x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Babylonia and the eastern provinces under Sargon II, edited by Andreas Fuchs & Simo Parpola (SAA 15, 2001). ORACC text P313624.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P313624). source
Translation excerpted from Fuchs, A. & Parpola, S. 2001. The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III: Letters from Babylonia and the Eastern Provinces. SAA 15. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa15/P313624/.
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