Position in chronology
SAA 19 036. Raising Barley (CTN 5 p. 273)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [To the king], my [lord: your servant In]urta-belu-uṣur. [Good health] to the king, my lord! (4) [Concerni]ng what the king, my lord, [wrote] to me: "20,000 [homers of barley] have been imposed on you - [wh]en will you raise them?" (8) I have raised [x thousand] 966 homers [of barley] (Break) (r 2) [I shall rai]se the first [...s].
Source: Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P393616/
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Transliteration
[a-na LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ / [ARAD-ka md]⸢MAŠ⸣—EN—PAB / [lu DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL EN-ia / [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL be-lí / [iš-pur]-a-ni ma-a 20 lim / [ANŠE ŠE.PAD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ina UGU-ḫi-ka / [ma-a] ⸢im*⸣-ma-te ta-ma-ta-ḫa / [x-lim]-⸢9*⸣-me-66 ANŠE / [ŠE.PAD-MEŠ] am-⸢ta-at⸣-ḫa / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ di ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] / [x x x x] pa-ni*-⸢u?-te⸣ / [a-ma]-⸢ta⸣-ḫa
Scholarly note
Royal correspondence from Kalḫu (Nimrud) under Tiglath-pileser III or Sargon II, edited by Mikko Luukko (SAA 19, 2012). ORACC text P393616.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P393616). source
Translation excerpted from Luukko, M. 2012. The Correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. SAA 19. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/P393616/.
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