~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 5
SAA 05 117. Delays in Timber Delivery (CT 53 035)
(1) To the king, [my lord]: your servant [Gabbu-ana-Aššur]. (3) As to the message [which I got]: "Why [are the beams late]?" — (5) up to now [...], Aššur-reṣuw[a, the ...ean], the Kummean, [the ...ean], the Babutean, [the ...ean], the Ukkean, the I[l...ean], the Uliean, the Meṣa[ean], in all 10 city lords have hauled (the beams) to me (over a distance of) two stag[es], while I had to haul them for the third stage alone! (15) By the gods of the king, my lord, the day that the beams came to me, the [...] (official) did not leave me; (I swear) the [beams] are on the [river] ba[nk] ..., but the…
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