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SAA 01 117. Merchants (ABL 0234)
(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant Ašš]ur-bani. [Good health to] the king, my lord! (3) [As to ...... the me]rchants [...... (Break) (r 1) Calah [...... in] my hand [...... the king, my lo]rd will kill me.
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SAA 01 118. Merchants Petition the Palace (ABL 0231)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Saili who petitioned the [...] tells me: "A son of Sa[dir] has given 1.5 minas of gold to [...]; he has raised [from h]im 50 [..., and ...] to [......]" (10) A son of Sadir [......] bits and pieces [...... (Break) (r 1) [A son of] Sadir has ra[ised ...] for three years. (r 3) [The son]s of Sadir petitioned the Palace claiming they had weakened (financially), and they say: "We have been authorized by the Palace to raise the iškāru dues from the troops"; (r 7) What Saili is saying is: "In what sense is he weak? Just as I raise the iškāru on my own, so let him too raise it on his own."
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SAA 01 119. Boats Carrying Bull Colossi Sink (ABL 0420)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Aššur-šumi-ke'in called me to help and loaded the bull colossi on the boats, but the boats could not carry the load (and sank). (11) Now, although it cost me a great trouble, I have now hauled them up again.
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SAA 01 120. On Bull Colossi in Tastiate (CT 53 466)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 2) Now, [should] the [...] (official) [fet]ch Aššur-šumi- ke'in from Tasti[ate]? What are [the king my lord's] instructions?
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(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the double-door house of the courtyard of the bath, of which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Is the karintu [...]?" (9) The karintu has been completely built, but [the kar]intu [...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 122. (no title) (ABL 0237)
(1) [To] the king, my lord: [your servant] Aššur-bani. [Good heal]th to [the king, my lord]! (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 124. Fending off Accusations (ABL 0190)
(1) [To] the king, my lord: your servant Kiṣir-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) As to the houses of the recruitment officers, about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The houses are already built, you are deceiving me in order to give them to your servants!" — (8) as if I did not tell the truth to the king, my lord! Let a royal eunuch who will tell the king my lord the truth come and have a look at these houses of the recruitment officers! If they are already built, let him go and tell it to the king, my lord, and let the king, my lord, hold his report to my discredit and say:…
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SAA 01 125. An Earthquake at Dur-Šarruken (ABL 0191)
(1) [To the king], my lord: your servant Kiṣir-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) Upon my coming from Milqia to Dur-Šarruken, I was told that there had been an earthquake in Dur-Šarruken on the 9th of Adar (XII). Perhaps the king, my lord, now says: "Any damage within the city wall?" (16) There is [no]ne. The temples, the ziggurat, the palace, the city wall and the buildings of the city are all well; the king, my lord, can be glad. (r 8) The king, my lord, will hear many things tomorrow and the day after, and say: "Why is it that you heard but did not write?" That is [why I am now writing to] the king, [my lord].
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SAA 01 126. (no title) (CT 53 610)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) Let me appoint [......] in the service of [...]. (4) [......] the oil that Šep-Aššur (5) [......] let him give them servants (6) [......] upon then (7) [...... on the ...]th we set to work on [......] (9) [......] we are doing it.
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SAA 01 127. (no title) (CT 53 818)
(1) [To the king], my [lord: your servant Kiṣir-Aššur. Good] health to [the king, my lord! (3) As to what the king] my lord wrote to me: (4) "[......] in the presence (5) [of ......]!" I (6) [......] they discharged (7) [......] appointed under him (8) [......] again (9) [......] they discharged (10) [......] he is a [chariot d]river (Break) (r 1) [......] Nineveh [...] (r 2) [......] of the Inner City [...] their (r 3) [...... of] Arbela and [...] (r 4) [......] tiller (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 128. Receiving a ‘Shipment’ of People from Guzana (ABL 0167)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Ina-šar-Bel-allak. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the gods residing in Dur-Šarruken give the king my lord length of days! (7) I went as far as Šabirešu to meet the people and oxen that were brought to me from Guzana; I checked them, received them, and provided them with shelter. Some of them were missing: (14) Kinâ, a wineskin-raft man, three persons; Sandapî, a vegetable gardener, three persons; Hulî, a farmer, five persons; Kuzâ, a belt-maker, four persons — in all 15 persons missing from my…
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SAA 01 129. Providing Sheep for Offerings at the Nabu Temple (ABL 1087)
(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant Ina-šar-Bel-allak. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord]! May [the gods] resi[ding in] Du[r-Šarruken] give the king [my lord] length of days! (7) The continual sheep offerings which the king my lord organized for the Nabû temple have been regularly provided by the cohort within my city; [...... (Break; reverse too broken for translation)
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SAA 01 131. Meeting the King in Babylon (ABL 0842)
(1) To the king, [my lord]: (2) (This is) your servant Aha-lurš[i, your adorer], who daily prays to Bel and Nabû for the life of [the king, his lord]. May Nabû and Marduk bl[ess the king], my lord! (6) Bel and N[abû ...... (Break) (r 2) [As to what the king, my lord, wro]te to me: "Come [to my presence in Nisan]!" — (r 3) the work will be fini[shed] by the [...th] of intercalary Adar (XIII); I shall leave Dur-Šarruken on the 5th of extra Adar and shall be in the presence of the ki[ng my lord] even before the month of Nisan (I). (r 7) May Nabû and Marduk [bless] the king, my lord! (r 8) That…
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SAA 01 132. Organizing the Cult of Dur-Šarruken (ABL 0841)
(b.e. 1) To the king, [my lord]: (2) (This is) your servant Aha-lurš[i, your adorer], who [daily] prays [to Bel and Nabû] for the life of the king, [his lord]. May Nabû and Marduk [bless the king, my lord]! (5) As to what the king my lord wrote to me: "[As soon as the work has been finished] and the god has taken his seat (in the temple), [come to my presence]!" — (7) Mardî the eunuch said: "I [shall go; instead of] your going, stay and off[iciate here so that when ......] and the god takes his seats [......], you can recite the proper formulae" — (10) I told [him], however: "Write down [in a…
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SAA 01 133. Blessings and Flatteries (ABL 0216)
(1) The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel, Nabû, Sin and Nergal bless the king, my lord! (5) (This is from) your servant Hunnî, an adorer of the king his lord. (7) All the temples and palaces of Assyria are well; the crown prince Sennacherib is well; all the princes [who are in] Assyria are well; [the king], my lo[rd, can be very gl]ad [indeed]. (Break) (r 1) May he see the workmanship of the temples of his gods and kiss their beautiful feet; may those (gods) whose temples you have made shine like sunrise, bless the king my lord, and may we, the royal servants, kiss the feet of the king, our lord. (r 10) (This is from) your servant Hunnî, an adorer of the king his lord, who every morning and evening continually blesses the king, his lord.
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SAA 01 134. Blessings and Rituals (CT 53 043)
(1) [To the king m]y lord: your servant [Hunnî]. Good health to the king, my lord! [May] Nabû and [Marduk bless the king, my lord]! May they give the king my lord a long life, peace of mind and good hea[lth, extreme old age], a strong army, a long reign and as many years as [......]; may they make all countries submit themselves [to you]! (6) May the king, my lord, the good shepherd [......] truly tend and shepherd them; may Aššur, Bel and Nabû [add] flocks to your flocks, give them to you, and enlarge your spacious fold; may the peoples of all the countries come into your presence! (10) O…
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SAA 01 135. Dividing an Inheritance (ABL 0179)
(1) [To the ki]ng, my lord: your [servant] Amar-ili. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! (4) As to the house of Mardû of which the king my lord told (me): "You and the governor of Arbela, divide it evenly between the sons of Mardû and give (each his share)!" (12) We did indeed find a writing-board inside (the house), [just as the king my lord had w]ritten; I sealed it and put it inside (...). (r 7) Now I am sending it to the king, my lord. What are the king my lord's instructions?
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SAA 01 136. No Jewels in the Temple (ABL 0643)
(1) [To the king, my lord]: yo[ur servant Amar-ili. (3) [As to] the jewels [of which] the king my lord wrote to me, we searched in the temple but did not [find] (any) beautiful stones [...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 137. Clearing away Rubble from a Collapsed Wall (ABL 0329)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Amar-ili. (3) We cleared away the wall of the palace which had fallen in and were starting to dig the foundations when the granary between the storehouse of the Palace Superintendent and the city wall fell down. The barley [...... (Break) (r 1) We have [...]ed and dumped it in the sto[rehouse of ...] and in the storehouse [of ...].
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SAA 01 138. The Wall Behind the Image of Ištar Collapses (ABL 1178)
(1) [To the king], my [lord: your servant Ama]r-ili. (3) [As to the ... wall behind] (the image) of Ishtar [of which the king my lord] told (me): "Place the symbol [where it] goes up and [...]; if the wall is leaning, write me" — (10) Now on the 4th, the wall caved in by itself. [PN] and the master-builders [came] to see it, and they said: "[The wall] is ruined; let them remove [...] and change [...]. The [...] that the king ord[ered ...]." (19) A wall which [...] which the king [...] knows! [All] is well, [the king my lord can be] gl[ad]. (Break) (r 15) He should go [...]. [As far as] the wall behind the god is concerned, the king my lord can be glad.
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SAA 01 139. Getting Stone Slabs Across the River (ABL 1446)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) ...... the Palace Herald and] the Chief [...] are keeping the boats for [them]selves. (4) Let the king, my lord, send word that they bring (boats) [to me] either from the Palace Herald or from the Ch[ief ...] so that I can get the stone slabs across. (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 140. Setting up a Divine Panther (ABL 1209)
(1) [To the king, my lo]rd: your servant Ilu-iqbi. (4) I have set up the panther which is on the right side of the god; it stands firmly on the ped[estal]. The ki[ng, my lord, c]an be glad. (10) I shall release ...[...] to the god [...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 141. Stones for Cleansing the Throne of Destiny (ABL 0644)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) The artists [...] said [to me]: "Write to the Palace that they should bring us 'wiping-stones' of Izalla. We should cleanse the Throne-of-Destiny of silver and the door of Ištar-of-Hearing."
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SAA 01 142. The Throne of Destiny Cleansed (CT 53 183)
(1) [To the king], my [lord: your servant Ilu-iq]bi. (3) The [Throne-of-Destiny] of silver and the [......] of silver are finished; [as to the ..., ...] said [that they are not] finished. (9) The [...] are cleansing the [...] in the presence of the governor; they will be ready [this] very moment. [The ... who are] wiping [...... (Break) (r 2) ...... I am fee]ding the Šugureans [who] are coming in. All the king's [servants are well]; the king [my lord] can be glad.
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SAA 01 143. Straw for the Glazing of Bricks (ABL 1180)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [On the ... th, after ......] we had finished the (city) wall, [we] got [busy], gathered men for the straw that the king had given to us in Halahhu, and went to carry it over. (8) The men working in the ditch, [of] a single prefect and 125 in number, have [neither] delivered straw of their own nor are they carrying that of Halahhu. By means of what will they glaze bricks for their work-quota tomorrow? What does the king my lord say? (r 1) As to the replacement for the dead concerning which the king told the magnates: "Provide the replacement!" — nobody has given us…
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SAA 01 144. Reeds for the King’s Work (ABL 0626)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) I shall finish the king's [.....] before the king my lord (comes); the king [my lord] can be glad. (7) I have no reeds for the king's work, (so) I have no work of [the king] (to do). (r 3) They should speak to the governor of Calah; there is reed in the wadi of Ubasê; let him give me a wineski[n raft (loaded) with r[eeds ...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 145. Measurements of Bull Colossi (CT 53 327)
(1) [To the king, my lord]: your [servant Šamaš-upahhir]. Good he[alth to the king, my lord]! (3) As to [the measurements] of the b[ull coloss]i about which the king [my lord wrote to] me, the length of the first bu[ll colossus] is [x] and a half royal [cubits], [its] widt[h is x]; from the length and the width [x] cubits and a half have been finished. (11) [Another] colossus: [length is] 9.5 cubits; from its other side t[o the r]iver [......] cubits [...... (Break) (r 1) [a bull colossus: length is x cubits], width [x cubits]; (r 2) a bull colossus: [length] 10.[5 cubits], width 5 cubits;…
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SAA 01 146. City Rulers Petition the King (ABL 0136)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-upahhir. Good health to the king, my lord! (5) The king my lord's servants, the city-rulers under my authority whom the king [my lord] o[rdered] to work in Milqia [have co]me [to my presence saying: "...... (Break) (r 1) "Send [..... to the pa]lace!" (r 2) They have made [me] sack [the ... of the ki]ng, my lord; what does the king my lord say?
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SAA 01 147. The Petition of the City Rulers (ABL 0526)
(1) To the king, our lord: your servants the city-rulers who are doing the king's work in Milqia. (6) As to what the king wrote to us: "Finish your work it while it is supervised" — we will do what the king our lord wrote to us and deliver it to the king our lord, but the work is a great burden on us. (r 1) What with the kallapus and the trackers, they do not allow us to do the king's work. (r 6) We are now petitioning the king our lord to release us so that we can perform the king's work. We shall repay our debt as soon as we are back in our country.
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SAA 01 148. The ‘Sons of Bought Men’ of Ekallate (ABL 1276)
(1) [To] the king, [my] lord: yo[ur servant] Aššur-[...]. (3) [As to] the 'sons of bought (slaves)' of Ekallate [whom the king], my lord, sent to me, [...] king's [me]n [......] king's [me]n ... (Break) (r 2) ..... I have wr]itten to him. [I]f the king my lord commands, [as soon as] the Chief Eunuch [has le]ft, [let the ma]sons [...] the 'sons of bought (slaves)', and let them supply for me [the materials needed for] the Inner City ...[...].
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SAA 01 149. Governor of Arbela Holding Back the King’s Men (CT 53 108)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-šarru-ibni. Good health to the king, [my lord]! (4) The governor of Arbela has [120] king's men who did not go to the campaign with the king but he will not agree to give them to me. I fear the king, my lord, and shall not take hold of his men (without his permission). (r 1) 30 (men from) Tillê, 60 (from) the land of Hamudu of the governor of Calah, 30 from the city of [...]ba. They have neither rations nor work.
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SAA 01 150. Finding Big Bull Colossi for the King (CT 53 024)
(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant Aššur-šumi-ke'in. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur bless the king, my lord! (5) As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Find big twelve-cubit bull colossi!" — (8) [There are two] in front of the main gate of the center of the city; [one] is an [el]even-cubit colossus [of the Chief C]upbearer; the other has a [...] and is not 'clean'. (12) Then there are [two] bull colossi of Zeru-ibni, each ten cubits; one he has set up in front of the royal palace, the other one is extra and in his possession. Let him give it [to] the Palace Herald so…
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SAA 01 151. Timber (ABL 0934+)
(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Nabû-deni-epuš. [good health] to the king, my [lord]! (5) As to the timber [about which the king wrote] to me, [...... (Rest destroyed or too broken for translation)
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SAA 01 152. The Affair of Gidgidanu and His Brothers (CT 53 012)
(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant Nabû]-zer-ketti-lešir. [Good health] to the king, my lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk bless [the king], my [lord]! (6) [As to Gidgid]anu [and] his [brothers about whom the king, my lord wrote] to me, [......] the temple [......] his promise; (11) he has [not] been able to [...] the king my lord's [...] in the eyes [of] the king, my lord, and has not [...... (Break) (r 4) As to what the king, my lord, wrote [to me]: "Why have [these] brothers of Gidgidanu quitted (their) work and left, going away?" — (r 9) if the brothers of Gidgidanu working with me, if…
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SAA 01 153. Sidonites in Nineveh (ABL 0175)
(1) To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Nabû-riba-ahhe. Good health to the crown prince, my lord! The guards are very well. (6) The Sidonites and the(ir) heads did not go to Calah with the crown prince, my lord, nor are they serving in the garrison of Nineveh. They loiter in the center of the town, each in his lodging place.
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SAA 01 154. Soldiers Idling Time Away in Calah (CT 53 829)
(Beginning destroyed) (2) The [troops] who a[rrived ...] and have been resid[ent] in [...] are loitering in the center of Calah with their riding horses like [...] common criminals and drunkards. (r 5) What does my lord say? [Let my lord quickly send an answ]er to my letter!
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SAA 01 155. Philistine Troops in Arbela (ABL 0218)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Nergal-balliṭ. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The Philistines whom the king my lord formed into a cohort and gave me refuse to stay with me; [they ......] in the village of Luqaše [near] Arbela [...... (Break) (r 1) ......] sta[ying ...]. Now [......] after [...]. (SPACER)
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SAA 01 156. (no title) (ABL 1064)
(1) [To the king], my [lord]: your servant Pan-Aššur-[lamur. Good] health to the king, [my] lord! (3) [As to what] the king my lord wrote to me: "[The day] you see this [lett]er of mine, [...... (Break) (r.e. 2) Later I [...] (my) chariot [......] about the food [......] I/they have left [......].
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SAA 01 157. (no title) (CT 53 525)
(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant Pan]-Aššur-lam[ur. Good heal]th to [the king, my lord]! (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 158. Gold and Silver Objects Sent to the King (CT 53 001)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-a[šared]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) 1 big golden box, 1 golden plate, 3 crests of white silver, 1 box of gold scraps, 2 golden goblets, 4 firewood containers (with) golden (weighing) stones, 1 ... overlaid with gold, 1 bronze washing bowl, silver tableware, 1 box containing 153 silver bowls, 1 box (with) 25 bowls of ... silver and 26 silver ...; (r 1) 1 lion's head (rhyton) of silver, [...... (r 2) (Break) (r 6) 1 golden [......], 1 [......], [...] golden [...... (r 7) (Break) (r 12) ... I have just] sent [to] the king, my lord.
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SAA 01 159. Reclaiming Investments in Dur-Šarruken (ABL 1442)
(1) To the king, my lord: your servant Salmanu-[...]. Good health to the king, my lord! (4) The king my lord told [me]: "Nobody will pay back your loans until the work on Dur-Šarruken is finished!" — (9) (Now) they have ref[unded] to the merchants (loans on) the portion of Dur-Šarruken that has been constructed, but nobody [has reminded] (the king) about me; 570 minas of silver with [my seal] and due this year have not been repaid as yet. (16) When the king, my lord, sold gold and pre[cious stones] on my account, I told the king, my lord, that my father was much in debt to Har[...], Huziru…
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SAA 01 160. Collecting Barley for Palace Consumption (ABL 0843)
(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 [......]
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SAA 01 161. Collecting Barley (CT 53 461)
(1) [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Tariba-Issar. [Good health] to the king, [my lord]! (Break) (r 1) Now, what (orders) does the king, my lord, send? Let me go [to pile] up [the bar]ley I have collected, [until] my word [has arri]ved ......].
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SAA 01 162. A Letter from the Recruitment Officers (ABL 1036)
(1) [To the kin]g of (all) lands, our lord: [your servants] the recruitment officers [responsible for horse]s. Good health [to the king], ou[r lord]! (4) As to what the king our lord [wrote to us]: "Man[y ......" (Break) (r 4) ......] our [work ......] what[ever ...] it be [... we shall not be ne]gligent, the watch [... will be st]rict.
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SAA 01 163. Guarding a Bull Colossus (ABL 1417)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) [I se]nt [...] to the [...], saying: "[As regards ...], you are not free but shall arrange [......]. [Give] men to your official; one of the magnate[s] should quickly go with them and [keep] guard over the other bull colossus instead of the one which has been put in place. (r 3) And the bull coloss[i] which are in [... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 164. Master Builders to Work on a Bull Colossus (CT 53 465)
(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant .... Good health] to [the king, my lord! (4) [As to the] master-buil[ders] about whom the king my lord [wrote to me]: "Let them come and work with the magnates [...]! Perhaps [...] they can change [... into] a bull colossus" — (10) I have right now [sent the master-builders] to the king, my lord. Perhaps [the magnates] will [say in] the Palace: "[...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 165. Master Builders at Work (ABL 0955)
(Beginning destroyed) (1) As to the work [on ... about which I wrote] to the king, [my] lord, I have gathered the master-builders who [...], and made them take up the first [cornerstone]. They go from the Gate of Šamaš to the no[rth] and then make a turn here. After they have finished these two directions, they will go and lay the limestone wherever we give it. (11) Perhaps the magnates will say in the Palace: "They have deprived us of master-builders." As [I wro]te to the king, my lord, the limestone sla[bs ...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 166. On Bull Colossi (CT 53 451)
(1) [To the king, my lord: your servant ... Good health to the king, my lord! (4) [As to what] the king, [my lord wr]ote to m[e: "After you] have fin[ished] the bull col[ossi, do your] work ......] work [...... (Break) (r 1) ......] I shall load up and bring in the [...]. (SPACER)
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(Beginning destroyed) (1) As to what the king [my] lord [wrote to me: "Why [......] the bull co[ossi ...... (Rest destroyed)
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SAA 01 168. On Dur-Šarruken (CT 53 506)
(Beginning destroyed) (r 3) ...] loaded [...] brought [... to the king] my lord [to] Dur-Šarruken.
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